Word: brainstormer
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Regardless of whether he was serious about the board scores idea. Bok will no doubt take pains, if necessary, to explain away his brainstorm and to convince those who count that he is not one to hold his nose in the air. The hullaballoo will die down and, with a few more public statements. Bok may find himself where he apparently set out to be at the forefront of a movement to maintain national support of colleges and graduate schools. Without much straining, it is possible to envision Bok turning a sticky situation to his advantage if things...
...show!" That cheerful brainstorm, brimming with optimism, was a staple of MGM's old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movies. It was that same bubbly spirit of all-American teamwork, given a righteous edge, that prompted the Reagan Administration to put on a television special called Let Poland Be Poland. The 90-minute program was produced by the Government's International Communication Agency at a cost of more than $350,000, mostly corporate donations. It was scheduled to be broadcast early this week by local Public Broadcasting Service outlets. As many as 50 foreign countries (including Senegal, with...
Wood, 43, acted in her first movie when she was four, and though the critical praise was niggardly, she always had work. Brainstorm was her 46th movie, and her role required only three more days of filming. On a weekend hiatus, Wood, Husband Robert Wagner (star of TV's Hart to Hart) and her leading man-sallow and rangy Christopher Walken, 38-headed for the sea. They relaxed aboard the Wagners' 60-ft. yacht Splendour, moored in a cove off Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles from the Los Angeles shore. On Saturday afternoon they motored...
Sagan's business brainstorm burst upon him like a supernova while he was on a visit to Japan last year to promote his public television series, Cosmos. Impressed by a Japanese bowl showing the constellations of the northern hemisphere, he decided to have it redesigned to his own specifications and to offer it for sale in the U.S., along with other heavenly items...
...purchase was the brainstorm of Eliot Wadsworth II, 39, owner of White Flower Farm, a $3 million-a-year mail-order nursery in Litchfield, Conn. White Flower has advertised in Horticulture "almost forever," and in The New Yorker nearly as long. The New Yorker assumes 60% ownership, while Wadsworth, a Harvard M.B.A., gains a 40% interest and editorial control. The editorial staff of two, who work among potted plants in a two-story red-brick gingerbread Boston building, will not be pruned. Both of them go on quietly sprouting seasonal articles ("Make Way for Anthuriums") and such regular features...