Word: warners
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...then a Senator or a Representative; but they do not know it is wrong, and so they are not ashamed of it." So says a cynical newspaperman to an equally cynical speculator in The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. The speculator, though, sees virtues in the corrupt system: "We would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to--to--bribery. It is a harsh term. I do not like to use it." John T. Noonan Jr., 58, professor of law at the University of California...
Laurie Anderson: United States Live (Warner Bros., five disks). Laurie Anderson's United States, Parts I-IV, which premiered two years ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is the work that first brought the avant-garde form of performance art to a wide audience. A dazzling synthesis of music, narration and film, Anderson's free-associating view of American materialism was marked by both wry humor (I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak...
Continental Illinois directors who were asked not to seek re-election at next spring's stockholders meeting include the vice chairman of the board of directors of International Business Machines and the chief executive officers of Borg-Warner, FMC Corporation, IC Industries, and Baxter Travenol Laboratories, individuals with extremely successful track records, none of whose companies had ever had serious problems. Yet, by exercising rights gained last spring when agreeing to bail out the bank, the FDIC has stunned Wall Street by ordering their quick removal...
Visitors to Warner, N.H., often stop by Hillside Books, an antique bookstore, to sit by the fire and chat with Owner Thomas Stotler. A day or two after Christmas, a mild-mannered traveler dropped in. He said he was from New York but wanted to get away from the city for the holidays. Soon the conversation turned to crime in the city. The man told Stotler he had been mugged five times and talked at length about how little protection New Yorkers had from criminals. The book dealer asked his guest if he had heard about the fugitive "vigilante...
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION: PURPLE RAIN (Warner Bros.). Maybe the greatest original sound-track score since rock came to movies...