Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Records, has taken a penthouse on top of the sales curve, even as his family stays snug in their San Fernando Valley tract house. "Yeah, I live in the same house I did when I was making $18,000 a year for Capitol," Coury says. "Who needs Bel Air? My kids go to good schools, my wife's involved with the women's league at church. It's just my lawyers. They think I'm crazy...
DEREGULATION. Government regulation of specific industries and the spread of costly safety, antipollution and other rules that all industries must obey became widely recognized this year as a powerful inflationary force. In 1978 the Civil Aeronautics Board successfully freed air fares. The Interstate Commerce Commission now proposes to make entry into the trucking business much easier for new operators and to end the rate fixing by conferences of truckers. Carter has pledged to make environmental and safety regulation less costly and appointed an interagency council to comb out overlapping and contradictory rules. Unfortunately, the council is made...
Whether his shots were dropping for winners or thudding into the net, McEnroe continued to pout his way through the match, projecting the air of a sullen young man seething with resentment at a world arrayed against him. He once demanded of Umpire Mike Blanchard, 71: "Did you see that one? Can you see that far, Mike?" Smirking broadly, Nastase cleverly exploited the situation. At one point he waited for the crowd to stop booing McEnroe, then declared: "He's only...
...air is full of Muppet stories. One is told by Lew Grade, the English entertainment mogul, who says that some months ago, he flew to Paris to persuade Sophia Loren to appear in one of his films. He had exactly an hour for the conference, so he launched directly into his serenade, enumerating the reasons why Sophia alone could make his project take wing. Soon he noticed that she was paying only the faintest attention. Eventually the great actress explained: It was the Muppet hour, and she absolutely must see them. A blow to his ego, admitted Lord Grade with...
...wobbling dollar, but a more cheerful and indeed more bankable asset: Kermit the Frog. He is the gallant and slightly desperate master of ceremonies of a weekly eruption called The Muppet Show, which in its third season on the air has become what is almost certainly the most popular television entertainment now being produced on earth. The Muppet series is seen by at least 235 million people in 106 countries. Those who have not met Kermit will ask, in thank-you-not-today tones, "A frog?" And they will ask, "Adult?" The answer to the first question is a confident...