Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who reported this week's cover story found their subjects generally averse to the flamboyant display traditionally associated with new wealth. Says San Francisco Correspondent Michael Moritz, who also wrote the accompanying box on Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock, our cover figure: "I was impressed by Rock's silent power. People I talked to about him were reluctant to be critical, fearing his reach and influence." New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin was struck by the vitality of the multimillionaires he interviewed. "Stock Analyst Arnold Bernhard, for one, doubled his already considerable fortune when he was past 80," says...
Ronald Reagan would have picked Lester Lanin and Dom Perignon. Jerry Brown might have insisted on box lunches in a Sacramento park. George Deukmejian celebrated his first year in office at a Holiday Inn serving steak, salad and below-the-Borscht Belt Comedian Shecky Greene. When it comes to suavity and symbolic gestures, the current Governor of California is no match for his two famous predecessors. But it hardly seemed to matter last week. Describing the budget-priced dinner as "a little bit offence mending and a little bit of entertainment," the Republican Governor welcomed 200 legislators with a confident...
Winter may have come to Broadway, but the Fabulous Invalid has a spring in its step. After a sour start, with discouraging box-office receipts and with La Cage aux Folles the sole hit among the new plays and musicals, the season cheered up at the holidays. December brought a British farce, Noises Off, its chaos as finely tuned as a Daimler engine, and Noises Off brought in the pre-Christmas crowds. Then the Christmas-to-New Year's week (traditionally the year's best for ticket sales) recorded a $6,058,815 total, the second highest...
...film industry with a wary eye on the box office, that could be the best news...
...hearts and is more than 750 years old. An expatriate from the planet Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, he shuttles through centuries and galaxies in the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space machine), which is somehow contained inside a British police call box. Occasionally he and his young assistants touch down on a planet that looks suspiciously like the English countryside to battle the sinister forces of evil...