Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life has been filled with dreams and a need for the spectacular, and indulging them has proved profitable. LeRoy's latest dream fulfillment is Great Adventure, a 1,500-acre amusement park that opened this month in New Jersey featuring 2,000 animals (including a herd of elephants), chariot races, and one of the world's highest Ferris wheels (150 ft.). LeRoy has already shouldered Hardwicke Companies Inc., a firm in which he is a major stockholder, into spending $50 million on Great Adventure; eventually the company expects to invest $200 million. Says Charles Stein, head of Hardwicke...
This book is a recipe for madness. Common sense and ancient wisdom agree that the secret of a happy and productive inner life is to forget as much as possible-forget time's winged chariot, forget that your child needs orthodontia, forget that you have forgotten your mother's birthday, forget that the drink you hold as you watch the evening news (which itself must be forgotten) will demolish a billion brain cells...
...latest in a recent spate of huge, gigantic, incredible spectacle films on TV. This won more Oscars than any movie in history (11), but it's still a good film. (Especially the chariot race scenes.) Ch. 7, 8 p.m. Color, 3 1/4 hours...
...lenses, wire, plastic, glass and crystal, installed a light show and his Rodgers Touring Organ-a 4,000-lb. electronic monster with 56 stops and 144 speakers-and opened in the Fillmore with an all-Bach recital. Surrounded by a swirl of colored lights, he swept in on the chariot of the colossal Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. "Go-o-o-o-o, Virgil!" yelled a handsome man with a bushy Afro. Replied Fox: "Sebastian Bach is delighted you are here...
...Kerkorian's agent of austerity, Aubrey slashed employment from 6,200 to 1,200 and recently began shifting film production from the silver screen to network television series. Aubrey also sold off MGM properties including its record division, studio real estate, theaters-even Ben-Hur's chariot at a much-publicized prop auction. In September he announced that MGM would withdraw from the film distribution business, cut its feature-film production from 18 a year to six or fewer, and concentrate on such "leisure-time" ventures as the Grand Hotel, the firm's Las Vegas gambling palace...