Word: dillers
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What happens when folks used to the rarefied air of conceptual art have to operate at ground level? It's a plunge avant-garde architect-artists Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio made when they agreed to renovate a New York City restaurant...
...idea turned out to be right. Overnight, HBO went from cash incinerator to cash machine. The movie channel became a dominant force in the entertainment business, leading a young Paramount executive named Barry Diller to moan in 1983 that "if HBO and Time Inc. go unchecked, the motion-picture industry will be under total control of one company in less than five years." But even more important, it showed that consumers were willing to pay to subscribe for something that had always been given away free. Around the nation, small cable operators raced to copy Levin's idea. In Atlanta...