Word: brainstorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the aesthetically ridiculous, commercially brilliant brainstorm surfing blithely atop the Zeitgeist's seventh wave is a little number called Charlie's Angels, starring sexy Farrah Fawcett-Majors, sweet Jaclyn Smith and smart Kate Jackson. The series is about delicious ladies who get into scrapes that threaten life and virtue in the course of working as operatives for a private detective with such a passion for anonymity that he is never seen on camera. The show is not just a winner but a certifiable phenomenon. Seldom has a brand-new entry broken into Nielsen...
...first brainstorm along these lines was an offer to pay $25,000 to any secretary whose boss is imprisoned as a result of her information. Now PBC has sent out 24,000 letters to executives' wives, suggesting that they ask their husbands if they or any colleagues have been involved in criminal activity. To 1,000 wives of the corporate creme de la creme, tape cassettes have also been mailed. These tapes carry the voice of PBC Founder Jeremy Rifkin, 32, a Harvard-educated anti-establishmentarian. "Would your husband inform the authorities if he were aware of illegal conduct...
...take was to create a new identity and attempt to live a new life away from these pressures," he explained to Wilson, who the week before had gone on the floor of Parliament to deny that Stonehouse was a spy. "I suppose this can be summed up as a brainstorm, or a mental breakdown. I can only apologize to you and all the others who have been troubled by this business...
...Identity. Stonehouse did not explain what he meant by blackmail; but whatever "this business" was, it had certainly not been an instant brainstorm. Stonehouse's plans to shed his problems by adopting a new identity were laid well before his trip to Miami last November. First he telephoned hospitals looking for a dead person about his own age with no relatives; finding one Joseph Arthur Markham, Stonehouse obtained the latter's birth certificate and got a passport. Then, after his vanishing act in Miami, he flew to Melbourne, arriving on Nov. 27. The next day he left...
...record was the brainstorm of Dirk Tillen, a Düsseldorf producer who knew that Scheel, 54, was not only a member of the Düsseldorf Men's Glee Club but an irrepressible baritone who would even toss off a ditty or two at birthday parties for Chancellor Willy Brandt. The curiosity factor alone, Tillen reasoned, would sell discs. An added inducement was the promise that profits would go mainly to one of the Foreign Minister's favorite charities -handicapped children. Scheel immediately jumped at the idea, brushing aside complaints from top aides that cutting a record...