Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call them a band, maybe combo is the proper word. because they all do dance steps and all wear ties-one look at them and you know that they know that this is it. the Big Time. right here and live on the Hayden Hall stage, real Show Biz. They play with a studied boredom because they know people are not there to see rock musicians. They are just filler-in the Show Biz tradition-to keep the marks quiet until the start of the big act. Shawn Masters, the world's Greatest Hypnotist...
...done the act a thousand times-on the road for eight years, doing concerts like this one up and down the East Coast, then doing nightclubs for twelve years-breaking all the Show Biz records out there, running longer than Phyllis Diller, the runner-up. Held over for seven and a half months in Puerto Rico. He's got more than a hundred stunts, pre-tested for audience appeal. So there's no uncertainty about him when he sizes up the crowd. After a little opening spiel-"Hypnosis is a science and it is a fact" -he steps back, waves...
Despite, or because of her upbringing, Pet can barely abide show-biz socializing, and the Wolffs and their two daughters have relocated their home from Paris to a summer farmhouse near Antibes and a $250,000 chateau outside Geneva. "We moved," she explains, "to get away from the 'fun' people." For Pet Clark, the Downtown, rock-around-the-clock days are done...
Kaplan's conclaves, held in the U.S. and Europe, feature what he describes as "a bit of show biz" and big-name speakers who get fees as high as $3,000. They discourse on trends and ideas in and out of the market that Kaplan thinks will interest investors. At last week's three-day affair, Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader urged institutional investors to press corporate managements to do more about safety and pollution control. Mutual Fund Millionaire Bernard Cornfeld warned that the Viet Nam War and U.S. social turmoil were making American investments less attractive to Europeans...
Introduced with splashy promotion campaigns less than three years ago, enzyme pre-soaks like Procter & Gamble's Biz and Colgate-Palmolive's Axion quickly became household words and laundry staples. Enzymes were then added to most detergents. Today, brands containing enzymes account for at least 60% of the $1.5 billion U.S. market for pre-soaks and detergents. Now, government officials in both...