Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iacocca's tough-guy face and intense, you-gotta-believe-me manner are not supposed to work well on the cool medium. Perhaps Americans permitted him to confound the rules because he seemed like almost no one else in the limelight: he is, after all, the apotheosis of the regular guy. To a viewing public ordinarily soothed and stroked by carefully inoffensive spokesmen, Iacocca's bluntness was electrifying. In addition, of course, there has been the sheer quantity of exposure over the past five years. In all, Iacocca's 30-second spots have reached 97% of American households an average...
...cause of many a sleepless night for computer-company executives. If Big Blue entered the home computer market, many asked, could firms like Apple and Commodore survive? Texas Instruments dropped out of the competition in October 1983, before it had a chance to find out. IBM played a cool hand: right up to the moment that the PCjr was unveiled, the company denied that such a product existed. Now some IBM executives may wish those denials had been true. The corporation announced last week that it is stopping production of the PCjr. The withdrawal of the computer giant from...
...John Gielgud and patriarch of an acting dynasty that numbers his wife Rachel Kempson, daughters Vanessa and Lynn and son Corin; of Parkinson's disease; in Denham, England. Tall and handsome, a superb, cerebral technician with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some of the great Shakespearean roles and gave definitive performances in plays by Chekhov and Ibsen. His screen credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Dead...
Koppel, on ABC's Nightline, is a cool, well-briefed and forceful interviewer. To induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...
...ultimately self-destructive wife. "I did not find her easy to work with," he said candidly last week, "but it is not her job to make it easy for me." Streep, who is known to remain in character both on and off the set, was alternatingly friendly and cool to Dance, depending on the state of their onscreen marriage. "This concerned me because, typical of most actors, I am racked with insecurity, and I thought, She hates me and/or I'm turning in an appalling performance," he recalled. "I was not as relaxed as I might have been...