Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong cast, the Argentine impresarios Hector Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia searched southern Spain, the home of flamenco, for the best performers, rather than for glamorous people who could be taught the steps. The result, as in the Tango revue, is a largely middle-age troupe that, by show-biz logic, should cause audiences to snooze in their seats. But nobody snores during this evening, and those superannuated singers and dancers are exhilarating and, yes, sexy...
Have you ever been to a Valium picnic? Or been guilty of scoodling? Or yearned for warm fuzzies? If those terms are totally bewildering, you may want to take a crash course in "biz speak," the increasingly colorful, and sometimes off-color, language of the business world. The vivid vocabulary that bounces around corporate corridors has been collected and codified by Journalist Rachel S. Epstein and Nina Liebman, an industrial-development specialist for the New York State department of commerce, in their new book Biz Speak: A Dictionary of Business Terms, Slang and Jargon (Franklin Watts; $17.95). This handy compendium...
...hometown, and Louise Slaughter of Rochester. As he went door to door speaking on Central America, Gere met a swelling electorate. "People were extraordinarily generous," he said. "They were dressed up in their best. Suddenly 18 people lived in each house; 15 cars were in every driveway." The show biz apparently worked. Said Pooler: "My 17 1/ 2-year-old daughter will never be the same...
...inspiration for the script stems from Tolins' passion for opera, he explains. "Also, I'm a big fan of show biz and all its tackiness," he says...
...exactly jump into it, but Michael Reagan is becoming the last of his family to try out an aspect of show biz. His dad Ronald, mother Jane Wyman, stepmother Nancy, sister Maureen, step-siblings Patti Davis and Ron Jr. have all made movies, performed or done TV shows. Now the President's eldest son has made his own screen debut in Cyclone, a sci-fi adventure due out in January. Showing a knack for real-life irony, Reagan, 41, plays a bumbling CIA agent in pursuit of a supersophisticated motorcycle. "I kind of provide some comic relief," says Reagan...