Word: culp
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Professional organizers are also in demand. Stephanie Culp of Los Angeles is a pleasant, schoolmarmish woman who seven years ago turned her personal inclinations ("I was neurotically organized") into a career. "If I said I was a professional organizer seven years ago, people would have laughed," she says. "Now the idea is accepted." Culp's golden rule is to set priorities, and she's not kidding. "When you die, what do you want people to say at your funeral?" she asked California businesswoman Baker-Velasquez. Answer: "I didn't want my children to say, 'My mother was a wonderful businesswoman...
Among the tactics Culp's clients are testing: watching less TV, shopping by phone, buying low-maintenance clothes and appliances, screening calls on the answering machine and taking a more lax attitude toward housekeeping. "I'm not so immaculate anymore," Baker-Velasquez explains. "There are spots on the carpet, and things are broken. But I'd rather sacrifice my home than my husband's or children's needs...
Though Cosby's comedy was color-blind, the comedian was not. In 1964, when Producer Sheldon Leonard invited him to audition for a role in a new TV series called I Spy, Cosby struck Co-Star Robert Culp as the "angriest young man I'd ever met." Cosby does not dispute the characterization. "You have to remember the times. It wasn't so much because of any racism directed against me. It was because of the March on Washington and how the press tried to ignore it, and the Red-baiting going on. I felt that my country had betrayed...
...only people from the championship team who are still in Portland are coach Jack Ramsay and trainer Ron Culp...
Jimmy's quest for truth and justice takes him all the way to City Hall, where he is sent packing by tough-guy Mayor Tyler (Robert Culp). Fed up with the insensitivity of yet another elitist bureaucrat, Jimmy embarks on a one-man campaign to discredit Tyler and his administration. Trouble from Jim is the last thing that the Mayor and his tuxedo clad cronies need, already troubled by the departure of a top mayorial aide, accompanied by the city's bank accounts...