Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darling. On our project, they're playing with McQueen, but I don't think they can pay the money . . . Candy, my angel. Do you want to come to dinner Thursday? Here's who I'm having: Bogdanovich, Evans, maybe Nicholson . . .Oh Bobby, hi, sweetheart. You want us to negotiate a deal right now? $500,000 against 10% of the gross-no. $250,000 plus...
...venture capitalists aid no more than one of every 30 applicants-and he had better come armed not just with a good idea but a prototype of his product and a detailed survey of the potential market. Even the entrepreneur who passes that test can find that his financial angel is also a dictator who may not let the founder keep a majority of his own company. Says Paul Bancroft III, vice president of the steel-rich Phipps family's Bessemer Securities Corp.: "I do not want the president to have control. If his management is not going...
Look Homeward Angel, Opening Sat. at the Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., Boston...
...with technology, it is not too difficult to find blind spots in Fuller's vision. Many of his ideas are as old as Archimedes. He is too rational for human nature. He avoids details, particularly politics, in favor of charting immense generalities. But Kenner, who is a protecting angel as well as a biographer, offers a final word. Fuller's mission, he writes, is to spread a sense of wholeness and connectedness. Like Emerson and Whitman, he wants people to feel the universe in blades of grass and bubbles. He also retains the faith that principles...
...this point, however, Buckholz's bad angel has led him into a region of formidable murk. The stated business of the novel is nothing less than a search for the Unholy Grail-the pewter cup, Buckholz imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are Matthew Mendelsohn, a 33-year-old former New York state senator, and Lise, a moonstruck German beauty. For three years they have excavated the beaches and caves of Ibiza -Lise because she believes with the force of mania that the cup is there, Matthew because he believes serenely in nothing...