Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This feeling seems to have nagged Prince, too. Over the years he has been resolving the inner contradiction between the businessman and the artist in favor of the latter, moving fairly steadily away from the more traditional sure money-makers to riskier experimental ventures. He has metamorphosed from a straight producer to a producer-director, delegating more and more of the dirty work and concentrating on the creative aspects of putting a play together...
Meanwhile, bits of information about his background surfaced. His late father, James Hugh Angleton, was a businessman with foreign connections. During World War II, the elder Angleton became a lieutenant colonel in the OSS. The son went to Yale (class of '41). Fellow Student William Bundy, an ex-CIA man and now editor of Foreign Affairs, recalls Angleton as "a person of great depth in whom one sensed a constant searching." Among other things, Angleton worked on the campus magazine...
Swaggi offers no apologies. Says he: "The way I look at it, I'm a businessman. Sure I buy hot stuff ... but if I don't buy it, somebody else will." So the fence goes about his business, cunningly aware that good citizens and good thieves share a common goal: getting something for almost nothing...
...CONNOISSEUR by Evan S. Council Jr. A businessman descends into the joys of collecting pre-Columbian art and gradually loses himself to his possessions...
...windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...