Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync, creating gorgeous sculptured images. Filmed characters interact with spooky holograms and jolly robots. Thus it is with justifiable bluster that Frank Wells, the dapper, track-star-thin boss of Disney's theme lands, describes the company's latest park attraction as "far more than a motion picture. It is a total three-dimensional experience." Rusty Lemorande, the film's producer, calls it "not so much a movie as a 'feelie.' You don't just...
...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...
...dapper, pun-prone host of Public Broadcasting Service's Wall $treet Week, Louis Rukeyser instructs his 10 million viewers on how to invest their money. Now the Internal Revenue Service is suggesting that the teacher may need some lessons of his own. The agency is demanding more than $400,000 in back taxes and penalties from Rukeyser and his wife Alexandra...
...real life, Shadoe Stevens is a dapper and thoughtful man who left a job as a disk jockey to go into the more lucrative field of advertising. But to millions of TV viewers in California, Texas and Arizona, he is Fred Rated, the wild-and-crazy huckster who has appeared in some 800 commercials for the Federated Group, a Los Angeles-based electronics chain. In Stevens' wacky TV career, he has impersonated The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden and Miami Vice's Sonny Crockett, played a man who gets attacked by rabid frogs and even starred as a Santa Claus who turns...
There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...