Word: colorful
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Sarnoff, who still owns 79,338 shares of RCA common stock, has long lived in the shadow of the image of his innovative father, Brigadier General David Sarnoff, who pioneered radio broadcasting in the 1920s and color television in the 1950s. Robert Sarnoffs now-ended RCA career began in 1948 with the parent corporation's National Broadcasting Co. subsidiary. He became head of NBC in 1955 and was elevated to the presidency of RCA in 1966. Shortly after, he started RCA on an ambitious diversification effort. His main acquisitions: Hertz Corp., Random House Inc., Cushman & Wakefield Inc. (real estate...
THEA MUSGRAVE, 47, has written chamber music, ballet and opera. "Music is a human art, not a sexual one," she says. "Sex is no more important than eye color." When Britain's Musgrave talks about "space music," she is not referring to synthetic sci-fi sounds but to compositions in which the players are directed to move about the concert hall...
...visitors from China ever show up at an American college football game, one sight won't require an explanation -the half-time flash-card show. Reason: those sweeping murals created in the stands by massed thousands of people holding up brightly colored cards are also a feature of sports events in China The one big difference there is that instead of producing innocent U.C.L.A.s and expanding Stanford s's, the Chinese concoct giant propaganda posters (see color) and execute them on a scale and with a precision-that is awesome...
Throughout Rationale, Legman is concerned with a transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a goddam shovel), belong to the Freudian orthodoxy as laid down by the master in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...
Making new cards with a different color would not change the problem, he said, because the OFS would still have to use its name and address file, which caused the initial inaccuracies...