Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual attitude toward money also burned Funt. For example, he explained, CBS paid $75,000 a week for the Candid Camera package. Out of that, his agent continued to get 10%. "Imagine," he added, "a company that makes $7,500 a week for a sale that they made seven years ago!" Another instance of television's "ridiculous arithmetic": Producer Bob Banner, who helped get Candid Camera on CBS, receives a steady $7,000 a week without having to go to the studio...
...architect. But he was almost as well known for his inability to see his projects through. "Alas," cried Pope Leo X, "Leonardo will never finish anything. He thinks of the end even before he has begun." As a result, while some 6,000 pages of his notes and casual sketches survive, there are only 15 known Leonardo paintings-and some experts place the number as low as nine. All but one of his paintings hang in European museums...
Then stillness and a turning of heads. Down a few steps from a doorway in the corner of the room walk a man and a woman?he, casual in slacks and cardigan sweater; she, sleek in blonde hair and black dress. Simultaneously, a full-sized movie screen begins a silent descent down a side wall. Playboy Editor-Publisher Hugh Marston Hefner, 40, sinks into a love seat that has been saved for him beside the 15-ft.-long stereo console. His girl friend, Playboy Cover Girl Mary Warren, 23, slips alongside him, puts her head on his shoulder. A butler...
...past the small casual unions were adequate for the members desires. But both the needs of Harvard's workers have changed and the ways in which negotiations are carried on. While most of the University's employees are proud to work at Harvard, the security and prestige of their jobs won't silence their demands. Its not like the old days when "no one complained because getting a job at Harvard was like being elected to the U.S. Senate." to his trade. When it came time for negotiations, not one, but five, business agents would meet with Harvard. What made...
Despite the Senate's casual acceptance of his presence, Brooke has already become a Capitol Hill tourist attraction. Gallery-sitters crane their necks, gawk and buzz excitedly whenever he comes into view. In airport terminals and Capitol corridors, strangers grab his hand and wish him well. Letters come into Brooke's office at the rate of 350 a day. He has received nearly 1,400 speaking invitations in the past couple of months, has rejected all of them until last week's engagement...