Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to researchers, about half of the conjugal commuters are in the academic world, where work schedules are flexible and jobs too scarce to turn down. But the numbers are increasing in business, politics, show biz and journalism. The education level is high-about 90% have done some graduate work. Family income tends to average $30,000 to $40,000 a year. Often the commuting comes about because the wife has reached a level at which further advancement means moving, and the husband solidly supports the move...
From time immemorial, champagne has been the ambrosia of New Year's and nuptials, ship launchings and seductions. In recent years, all this has changed. Champagne has become a drink for all occasions and is now quaffed in such Jeroboam quantities that the fizz biz poppeth over. The thirst for authentic French bubbly, plus the grievous crop damage to French vines in three of the past four years, has raised prices for the real stuff* and has forced French shippers to ration the choice vintages. At Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant, for instance, a bottle of Henriot...
...Broadway had a book of "begats," it would read that show biz begat show biz begat show biz. Narcissism can be a powerful intoxicant. It has fueled some remarkable musicals. Think of Gypsy and, more recently, A Chorus Line. Dreamgirls is not quite on that level. Its heart pumps more grease paint than blood. But it demonstrates that you've gotta have heart just to be in show biz. For every triumph savored, there is a numbing disaster, for every dream a nightmare; and the everlasting need is to go on striving, surviving, for that is the core...
Consumerism goes show biz...
...syndicated to 36 stations and takes a special delight in giving TV commercials the hotfoot. There are other raisers of consumer consciousness who are just as solid-NBC's Betty Furness, or 20/20's John Stossel-but none can quite match Horowitz's zealous show-biz savvy. Looking a little like the recording secretary of the Beverly Hills Jaycees, Horowitz gets cozy with his studio audience. He answers their questions; he invites them up at show's end to check out, say, several different containers of jelly beans, all of which claim to be the White...