Word: clout
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These are heady goals for even the most robust of classical labels, but though Virgin Classics may not occupy the uppermost rung in term of financial clout and big-name draws, it has championed several relatively unknown ensembles which can outplay the competition, big label or not. A good example is the Brahms piano quartet cycle recorded by Domus, which outshines Sony's offering with a super-powerhouse lineup of Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel...
They are something more than typists, something less than geniuses. Their names are rarely on the picture, but they carry big clout. Their job is to fix something -- a character, some dialogue, a plot perplex -- that the moguls think is broken. And to fix it quick. "When you're staring down the gun barrel of a release date," says Robert Towne, whose uncredited work on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather and other films has made him chief surgeon in the Script Doctors' Clinic, fixing a film amounts to "grace under fire...
...Rome concert, neither they nor their management teams foresaw the extraordinary revenues that the event would generate. The singers accepted a flat fee from Decca, with no royalties. Economically, it was a disastrous decision. Music-industry sources have it that Pavarotti, who records exclusively for Decca, used his clout to sweeten his deal once it was clear that the album was going through the roof. When word leaked to the others, Domingo, who free-lances primarily with Sony and BMG, was said to be especially peeved...
Panetta is close to senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, who is likely to gain in clout -- partly as a matter of subtraction. With Gergen focusing on foreign policy and McLarty playing a more compartmentalized role, Clinton will hear less of their moderate advice to counter the more liberal outlook of Stephanopoulos. (In fact, one reason Gergen took Gore's offer to go to State is that he knew Stephanopoulos would cut him out of the information loop on domestic-policy questions once McLarty was no longer in a position as chief of staff to protect him.) Despite their past differences with...
Support from the religious right was crucial in making Oliver North the Republican candidate to oppose Democratic Senator Charles Robb in Virginia. Earlier this month, conservative Christian delegates turned the Texas state convention into a whooping, roiling demonstration of their clout, forcing through the election of their candidate for party chairman and the adoption of a hard-right plank that gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush, the ex- President's son, will now have to run on. Wary moderates like Bush and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson were careful not to offend the rightists, who rolled over anybody in their way. When...