Word: biz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dreams end, Reaney is strictly a power failure. He attributes one blowout to the fact that the widow in the upstairs flat had bad breath. He talks a young singer out of bed by asking the equivalent of what's a nice thing like you doing in show biz. He finally finds happiness in a most old-fashioned way: with his best friend's wife...
Valley's appeal is hard to pillpoint: The book is dedicated to the author's poodle Josephine, but animal lovers will not find much else to cry over. The story is human--all about the hell of show biz and the perils of excessive mammary development. Anne Welles, a small-town girl and frigid Radcliffe graduate, escapes her destiny of "shrivelling into another New England old maid" by coming to The Big City. In New York she melts into the arms of a handsome English writer and becomes a TV commercial star a la Betty Furness...
...olden days, as Cole Porter put it, a glimpse of a stocking was something quite shocking. Nowadays the exposed human form has become such a big part of show business that hardly any thing is startling. Just boring - as two show-biz flops amply illustrate...
...Manhattan, Broadway and Seventh Avenue run side by side and at one point intermingle. So do the ideals of their denizens, to the extent that Seventh Avenue, capital of the garment industry, is almost as much show biz as Broadway. Thus this week Garment Manufacturer Richard Schwartz, the young (28) president of Jonathan Logan Inc., flies west for road-show tryouts of his new knit line. Schwartz will see what sells best among buyers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, get his stitchers busy for what he hopes will be a long run in his New York showrooms...
...Take a Card." Today an announcer, tomorrow a spokesman. Such is another peculiarity of the show-biz equation. For Carson, the rise was a little more gradual. He is not a Horatio Alger hero but an updated and inner-directed Huck Finn. He was born in October 1925 in Corning, Iowa, where his father Homer-dubbed, inevitably, Kit-worked for a utility company. When Johnny was eight, his family moved to Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 15,200), where Homer (who is now retired) was appointed to the district managership of the Nebraska Light & Power...