Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characterization is equally inconsistent. Stephen Kaplan's truly fascinating Menenius at times conveys Polonius-like age, at times wisdom, then steps out of character suggesting a Hollywood agent who has lot his client, then a deeply jealous suitor disappointed at Volumnia's success over his own failure...
...behind Atlanta's "oneman urban-renewal plan" is Architect John Portman, 43, who has won hometown honors, architectural awards-and become a millionaire to boot-by insisting that he be both promoter and part owner as well as designer for all of Peachtree Center. Making himself his own client is the only way, Portman has found, to retain "the authority to see that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting-board, speculate...
Dirty Linen. But attitudes toward extramarital sex have changed, and the depths to which lawyers will go to discredit an opponent's client have become increasingly distasteful. Most important of all has been the growing obviousness of the inequities that were being wrought. Says New York Judge Samuel Hofstadter: "Many deserving women get too little, and others less deserving get too much." To him, guilt is a clearly outmoded concept in divorce. Besides, he points out, "in probably 90% of all cases, neither spouse is at fault, or both may be to some degree...
Today's agent just loves those royalty statements from book publishers. But he also exploits a growing variety of other outlets for his client. Given a hot property and an Air Travel card, he will busy himself selling subsidiary rights to the movies, TV, paperback houses, foreign publishers and serialization syndicates-to say nothing of arranging for new assignments from publishers and setting up lecture tours...
...headquarters in the Hotel National facing Red Square. Almost two years were to pass before two synthetic fiber plants worth $40 million were ordered through his services from Chatillon in Italy. Then things started picking up with contracts for six 50,000-ton tankers for Savoretti's client Ansaldo, followed by others and culminating in the Fiat deal, the largest the Soviets ever made with a Western firm...