Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arthur Koestler, Dialogue with Death
...registration fee, top-shelf shoppers were greeted at the airport by young women in tuxedos and whisked by limousine to the MGM Grand Hotel, where they were lectured by Economist Arthur Laffer and entertained by Bob Hope as they mingled with other high rollers. Inside the hotel's Capitol Room, even those who were not striking deals said that they had got their money's worth. "I'm always interested in finding out what's happening in the marketplace, and it's not always easy to find out what's happening," explained G. Allan...
Russell, Jean Arthur ? did not so much display their bodies as move comfortably in them, telegraphing their belief that they were a match for any man. In the '40s and '50s, the bazooka buxomness of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield marked a reaction against equality; here was the milkmaid as sultry pinup. Now the hourglass is shattered. Says George Hurrell, the portrait photographer who for 60 years has celebrated Hollywood's full-figured stars: "In the '30s everything was round. It gave a body shape and shadow. Today, actresses are rid of hips and thighs and even...
...ENGAGED. Arthur B. Laffer, 42, University of Southern California economist and author of the controversial supply-side tax curve named after him; and Traci Lynn Hickman, 23, a U.S.C. senior majoring in political science; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The couple met when she had a job in the office of the business-school dean...
Lilly's action followed hearings before a House subcommittee, during which FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes Jr. said reports of 61 Oraflex-linked deaths in Britain and eleven in the U.S. were under investigation. An internal FDA memo given to the committee charged that in its application for approval of Oraflex in 1980, Lilly had seriously underreported the incidence of some negative side effects, such as failing to acknowledge 65 out of 173 cases of nonfatal adverse reactions. (It did report them later.) The memo said that some of the firm's reports to the FDA were "untrue...