Word: bons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every move, his employees click their heels at his snap of a finger and businessmen who try to deal with him are left on the sidelines. He even gets to play basketball with his lawyer's kid on the Garden floor. But something is missing from Buddy the bon vivant's life. At the age of 44, the man who has everything realizes that he needs something more (pangs of the real Reynolds in his middle forties perhaps...
...short of the planned 300,000. A promotion campaign dubbing it The Earth Diary seemed a futile echo of the '60s. Last week, after losing about $30 million-plus three publishers and three managing editors-Gruner & Jahr sold their ad-starved, troubled magazine to Knapp Communications (Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit). In exchange, Gruner & Jahr promised to help test-market Knapp's other magazines in Europe. Predicts President Cleon Knapp, who quickly named former New West Executive T. Swift Lockhard as Geo's fifth publisher: "We're not going to report on the sordid part...
...check in seven times a day, but otherwise was free to enjoy the city. He was doing just that on early Saturday morning, July 18, in the company of two attractive, well-educated young women he had met at a party. At 5:30 they stopped at the Bini-Bon Restaurant near the halfway house; it is a threadbare bohemian place, open 24 hours. Behind the counter was Richard Adan, 22, an aspiring actor and playwright who worked the graveyard shift in the café, which is owned by his father-in-law Henry Howard. Adan took the "toughest duty...
...zanne, nine years his junior, called him "a man to consult, and something like le bon Dieu"-meaning not the vengeful God of judgment but a kindly and paternal deity, the supervisor of hearths and gardens: in a word, the god of growth...
...season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis for selecting balanced programs, yet endlessly reiterates a generality--in this case, he writes a full page and a half without naming a single piece...