Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sulzberger also pensioned off whole lumberyards of executive deadwood on the paper's 14th-floor management corridor and hired younger men. Then he spirited his biz kids off to secluded conference centers for endless sessions devoted to planning, budgeting, lectures from management experts and other exercises that Timesmen had never endured before "The editors would say, 'How can we have a budget when we never know what the news is going to be tomorrow...
...results. Several of the stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...
...success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side, she concocts fantastic business deals that bring riches to her friends and show-biz backers-and yes, even to that little secretary who entrusted her life savings...
...Show Biz. This kind of conversion is often associated with emotionalism, but Graham's advice is: "Don't depend on feelings for your assurance of salvation." The night* he walked the sawdust trail, Graham remembers, others were weeping, and since he was not, he wondered whether his commitment was genuine. Despite the exuberance of some new converts, however, Graham writes that being born again does not mean that "we will never have any problems. This isn't true, but we do have Someone to help us face our problems. The Christian life...
...status," says Stan Herman, a Beverly Hills realtor who founded the place with Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner. Couples who join sign contracts providing for a second membership at the price of the first in case their marriages break up. Catering mostly to prosperous professional and business people and show biz stars (habitues include Paul Newman, Peter Falk, Tony Curtis, Lucille Ball, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra), the casually elegant disco area resembles a luxurious living room...