Word: domains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showman in Taylor is able to put it in perspective. "There is," he remembers, "what no amount of paid advertising could have brought -- immediate notoriety." The two coexisting reactions -- of the egocentric artist and the canny producer -- reveal a true man of the theater, and in Private Domain Taylor has written one of the best and most candid theater books to appear in a long time...
...Private Domain ends in 1974, the year Taylor stopped dancing. Though the last pages are upbeat -- starting work on the exultant Esplanade -- they are preceded by a remorseless account of physical and emotional breakdown. The trouble began when Taylor started gulping Dexamyl, a combination of amphetamine and tranquilizer, not knowing that it was addictive (Dexamyl has since been taken off the market). In 1968 he disappeared from a tour and spent a nightmare week in Liverpool, drunk, debauched, close to death, a Walpurgisnacht pitilessly described. A few years later his ankle, often injured, was ruined. He had ulcers. Finally...
...Shad and I both feel that this faculty can only make a real impact in this domain if the subject is tackled on an unprecendented scale," McArthur said to reporters at the time of the announcement. "It is clear to us that ethical issues have to be considered as they arise in the profession of business--constantly, and unexpectedly," he said, adding "They have to be imbedded in the very fabric of what we teach and research at Harvard Business School...
...publishing house will fit neatly into Murdoch's media domain, built mainly in his native Australia, Britain and the U.S. His holdings now include major newspapers in all three countries, a Hollywood movie studio, and the Sky Channel TV satellite that serves 15 European countries. Murdoch's new TV network, Fox Broadcasting, begins beaming prime-time programs to 108 U.S. stations this week...
...player in the early convolutions of the drama was Jim Bakker, the religious entrepreneur who reigned over the domain called Heritage USA. Nestled in the pine-carpeted piedmont just south of the border between North and South Carolina, Heritage is the third most popular theme park in the country (after the two Disney operations). It drew more than 6 million people last year to its 500-room hotel, 2,500-seat church, five-acre water park, and mock gable-fronted "Main Street USA," an enclosed mall with 25 stores and a 650-seat cafeteria...