Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referring to "Untrivial Pursuits," (November 3), a book review by Noam Cohen. Cohen perhaps can be forgiven because he is still young and impressionable, but the editors of The Harper's Index Book which he reviewed should be locked up and the key thrown away...
...amid all the gloom, some firms found a few rays of hope glimmering for the future. Shearson reported opening a record 9,000 new customer accounts in one day last week. "We think this was a flight to quality," said Shearson Chairman Peter Cohen. "People are feeling that it's probably better to be housed in big firms rather than smaller ones." Whatever the reason, the new business was balm to the brokerage that announced last month it was firing 150 workers in its London offices and cutting back its trading of municipal bonds...
...Churchill called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This week's cover story looks inside the wrapping. We have assembled an exclusive 28-page portrait of "A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union," excerpted from a forthcoming book by Rick Smolan and David Cohen, which is surely one of the most thorough attempts to capture the soul of that cryptic country...
...photographs on these and the following pages are the fruit of an extraordinary feat of organization. In the past eight years, Rick Smolan and David Cohen have co-directed projects that captured a single day in the lives of Australia, Canada, Japan and America. Now, after three years of complex negotiations with a government long used to rendering its territory invisible, they dispatched 100 top photographers from West and East to record a single 24-hour period. The result is A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, culled from 127,000 images snapped on Friday...
Organizers chose the name Snit, defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as slang for "a state of agitation or irritation," because "we thought it was a nice word," said Cohen, adding that the magazine will eventually come out quarterly but only twice this year...