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...Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, sometimes you're big, sometimes you're small. For those who believe in such chronic convulsions, the business world last week provided the spectacle of two cycles reaching opposite apogees at once, of simultaneous expansion and fragmentation. But here is the twist on the ancient adage: one corporation divides, the better to thrive; two companies, meanwhile, join for astonishing cash flow--but in so doing step into new uncertainties...
...fallen in love with. Consider the string of Crichton novels that have tapped into popular obsessions and been converted into box-office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic threat, earned $65 million domestically for Hollywood in 1993. Disclosure, his 1994 topical twist on sex-harassment in the office (Demi Moore chases Michael Douglas around the desk) collected $83 million domestically. Congo, his adventure saga featuring a talking gorilla, was released last summer to widespread pans but still made a hefty $80 million. Maybe that's because its advertisements didn't feature a single...
...course, there's a lesson to be learned from all of this, though it's hard to figure out just what that lesson is. In the end, Nomi leaves behind the life of the Vegas starlet (she also forsakes her best friend Molly, who, after a final ludicrous plot twist, is left lying semi-comatose in the hospital). You don't know where Nomi is going to end up, and, by that point you don't really care...
Calling the allegations "absolute hogwash" in an interview with TIME, D'Amato denied any wrongdoing. "I do not twist arms," he said. "I have never twisted arms. Given the number of people that we meet, the fact that there are political axes to grind, that kind of thing will be said from time to time. But there is no linkage...
Some lobbyists say D'Amato needn't twist their arms because they freely give the maximum allowable in order to ensure that they'll get in his door. "He commands respect and demands response," says Alan Greenstein, president of the New York State Association of Realtors. "I have access to his office--I call him Al. But I've never felt there was a quid pro quo. Not long ago, I saw him about an issue and told him my views. He told me I was nuts...