Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heiress to a tradition that reaches back beyond Pollock; she uses themes as a kind of reality on which to base an esthetic experience. Her ambition-and she succeeds in it with a memorable frequency-is to marry inner joy and outer discipline in a work of art...
...businessmen have a keener sense of the economic winds than Meshulam Riklis. When the art of acquisition was new in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was one of the canniest practitioners. In time, he parlayed nerve and some fancy forms of financing into control of a string of businesses in such diverse fields as retailing and men's wear, building products and theaters. Now that conglomerates are running into all sorts of head winds, Riklis' own interest seems to be veering from making mergers to simply managing his $2 billion annual sales complex...
Mature Mail. Riklis's own managers have already learned how to live with the boss's engaging eccentricities. Chairman Riklis, whose salary came to $379,000 last year, has developed an avid taste for Postimpressionist art; Rapid's mid-Manhattan offices are filled with Fernand Legers, Francis Bacons, Roy Lichtensteins...
...Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters.' From that point on, he's on his own." Though Chico's accent was an Italian defamation league all to itself, his shrewd con-mannerisms and manic assaults on the piano were often brilliant pieces of destructive art...
Three of the NHL officials--Art Shov, John Ashley, and Bruce Hood--have made their name in Boston for calling the penalties by reputation, and at least one of the three is bound to be picked to referee some of the Bruins' games...