Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty. "The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality," explains Lear, who despite the tumult plowed ahead and chose to remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley, the first editor during the bruising start-up, nonetheless credits Lear "as the first to see that most magazines neglected or talked down to millions of Americans. The success was inevitable and a pleasure to behold from a distance." The rapid growth of Lear's magazine...
Result: Williams, 37, became the first parent arrested under the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act, a six-month-old California law that compels parents to supervise and control their children or be charged with contributing to delinquency. Williams, free on $20,000 bail and denying guilt, faces a possible year in jail and $2,500 fine...
...except in his poor Jewish origins in Eastern Europe. Unlike the Mayers and Warners, he made relatively few films, and he never built a mighty empire with a huge star roster and an immense distribution network. He was the ultimate independent producer, with a compulsive need for autonomy and control ("I made Wuthering Heights," he once said. "((William)) Wyler only directed...
...spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage and the sound system that sporadically blares Tea for Two while he attempts a soft-shoe...
...quantity of alcohol that an individual consumes can also be a sign that a dangerous drinking pattern is taking shape, Valle says. "You certainly want to consider quantity," she says, because high tolerance is a natural symptom of alcoholism. Valle says, however, that a person who gets "out of control" once or twice is not necessarily an alcoholic...