Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black T shirt for his big entrance. "Just a little marketing gimmick," jokes Idei. "But the guests congratulated us." Idei got hoots of approval for Sony Pictures Entertainment's biggest film of the year from the likes of Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Intel boss Andy Grove, Seagram's Edgar Bronfman Jr., Time Warner's Jerry Levin and DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, to name...
...Herma Hightower, Northeast Regional Commissioner: "The cab driver on the way down here wanted to know if I was going to this. She had a problem with her taxes she wanted to get taken care of, so I got her number and we'll help her out." Imagine J. Edgar Hoover offering to take care of the deli guy's immigration papers...
Halloween lets us off easy, but it should not be underestimated--it serves a real function. Not surprisingly, Edgar Allen Poe, the patron saint of Halloween, captured the spirit of this enigmatic holiday best in one of his early poems: "Thy soul shall find itself alone/'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone." I hope you all had a good...
...enterprise, called USA Networks, puts Diller back in prime time with a long-sought chance to compete with the major broadcast networks. And it brings Seagram new outlets for its TV programming through HSN's 18 broadcast stations. It also enables Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to team up with pal Diller, one of TV's shrewdest programmers...
...then, in 1974, Parker went into a kind of hibernation. "I lost the voice" is how Westlake puts it. That voice, at any rate. He continued to write novels at a brisk trot, winning three Edgar Awards and occasionally lurching cheerfully off track with an unclassifiable detour, like Kahawa, which he claims is Swahili for "We couldn't think of a title." It's a caper tale, set in 1982, darker than Dortmunder, lighter than Parker, about some likable bandits who steal a trainload of coffee from Idi Amin, in Uganda...