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Exxon, ABC and Tiffany have more in common than famous names and slick midtown-Manhattan addresses. All have Japanese landlords. Within the past six months, investors from Japan have bought the headquarters buildings of the three firms. In a new twist on the protectionist slogan "Buy American," Japanese firms are literally buying America, or at least choice pieces of it, from New York City high-rises to beachfront hotels in Hawaii. Eager as customers at a close-out sale, these investors from the Far East snapped up as much as $6 billion worth of U.S. real estate last year, more...
There's also the flipside of this relationship, in which customers screw around with me. This only happened in the days when I was still docilely trying to fulfill my official role as a paid servant, long before I learned to twist customer relations to my own advantage...
...just when you think you've got DeLillo's intentions pinned down, he'll toss a thematic spitball and twist his meaning 180 degrees. The second act is a cracked mirror image of the first, as cunning and elaborate systems of role-playing and deception are peeled away, audience and cast alike slipping and sliding on the intellectual banana skins littered about the stage...
Donald Westlake wrote the screenplay for this effectively suspenseful and brutal twist of America's suburban search for T.V. family bliss. No familial unit ever had it as good or as saccharine smooth as the Brady Bunch, but the Stepfather, leaving a trail of bodies and abandoned identities behind him, is set on making media myth a reality...
About 1030 members of the Class of '87 took a trip down memory lane last Saturday night at the eighth annual Senior Soiree. In a traditional twist, Radcliffe women were expected to ask dates to the dance instead of vice versa...