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...growth. Windows 95, a product Gates is counting on to lead his charge into online services and electronic commerce, has run into one delay after another. And now, less than three months before the program is scheduled to hit the stores, just when Gates was supposed to ride the tide of industry support behind what could very well be the next personal-computer software standard, he finds himself under attack on all sides...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Rising Crimson Tide lifts him to stardom on an Arnoldian scale...
...Salomon Brothers, the base salary is $150,000 a year, and at other investment houses it ranges as high as $450,000, far less than the average player in baseball gets. But that's only the subsistence wage, to tide people over so they can put squab on the table and pay the housekeepers until the real money is doled out in annual bonuses. These bonuses run into seven figures, and if you've had a great year at the computer terminal, you could take home twice as much as Barry Bonds. And, as in baseball, you get paid...
...devised by writers Michael Schiffer and Richard P. Henrick (with a script polish by Quentin Tarantino), Crimson Tide is an old-fashioned mutiny movie -- on the U.S.S. Alabama instead of the Bounty or the Caine. Actually, this is a three-mutiny movie: commanders change faster than Italian Prime Ministers. This king-of-the-hill game gives Hackman, Washington and their cohort the chance to run around the submarine with guns and scowls. The milling is underscored with a heavy bass line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines...
Both stars give Tide a pedigree and, despite any critic's cavils, a safe shot at being the year's first big hit. Not a Red October: a Crimson summer...