Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flamboyant and tireless, Glenn W. Turner is to salesmanship what Billy Sunday was to revivalism. Now 37, he has built a tiny door-to-door cosmetics firm into a multimillion-dollar empire by stirring life's losers with a bewitching fast-buck gospel. "All we're doing is showing people how they can make something of themselves," says Turner, a sharecropper's son who favors neon-bright suits, ivory-colored boots made of skin from unborn calves, and a rhinestone American-flag lapel pin the size of a calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred...
...trying to broaden our services to sell all kinds of new things," a highly-placed HSA official said. He acknowledged the profit motive, but insisted there were other considerations in the decision. "Yes, it is to make a fast buck," he said, but added that "we are providing a service...
Shaw called the theater "a cathedral of the spirit," but no temple would be complete without its money-changers. Some altars seem to be rented out to hustlers of the quick buck. Their business instincts, however, are far from infallible; they frequently seem to mistake an anachronism for a trend. A year ago. No, No, Nanette opened with a box office bang, and the producing fraternity promptly decided that nostalgia was the hottest ticket around. This accounts for the fact that 1944's On The Town is the newest Broadway entry...
Brown calls it Televi$1on: The Business Behind the Box (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95). The $ in the title is no misprint. The pursuit of the buck is no more dishonorable in television than elsewhere, but the pursuers constitute the most unabashed lot of yahoos, bunko shooters, numbers racketeers and overstuffed shirts that has been seen since Sinclair Lewis hung up his spites. Brown's cast is frighteningly real...
...comes looking for fires, but instead ravishes the Maid, and then leaves in search of his Ideal. The play ends in a very uncivil brawl, with the Martins and the Smiths shouting nonsense syllables at each other. Underlying it all is a supreme non-intelligence, the John Bullish buck-up-chaps mentality. The Maid expresses it well when she looks at a content Mr. and Mrs. Martin--"Let's not try to know. Let's leave things as they are." The way things are, however, is vacuous and inane, shot through with hypocrisy and hatred. The movement in the play...