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His exacting minute-by-minute account of hostile encounters and sexual encounters leaves no doubt about what was ultimately at stake when males fought (often coalitionally).
Three years ago, he liquidated Seagram's $9 billion stake in DuPont to buy the entertainment giant MCA (now Universal).
In 1996, the Enquirer hired two private investigators to stake out the home of a Little Rock heiress rumored to be having an affair with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
But in this unstable environment, no one can predict whether that stake will be used to whack the Democrats from the left or the Republicans from the right--or to squeeze a Weicker-type centrist into the narrow space between an Al Gore and a George W. Bush.
Reviewers too have a stake in keeping up the pretense that most films are worth reviewing.