Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most analysts predict record Christmas sales, whipped up by promotion campaigns timed to coincide with the start of the buying blitz. Apple and IBM are expected to spend $30 million each on advertising before Christmas. Says InfoCorp Analyst Howard Purer: "December should just go off the page." - By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...DIED. Elmer W. Engstrom, 83, chief executive of the RCA Corp. from 1961 to 1968, who during his 39-year career with the company married the skills of an electrical engineer and manager to pioneer in the scientific development of modern electronic communications, including radio, radar, motion-picture sound and, especially, both black-and-white and color television; in Hightstown...
...that a director must be "prepared to trust Shakespeare." Here that means highlighting each word and gesture so that it plays for a modern audience. In Much Ado Hands digs deep into a bag that must be marked TRICKS THAT WORK. A courtly messenger declaims his prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house...
...Young, "but because of the controversy, it will probably be one of the highest-rated shows on television." In any case, viewers can always turn the color adjustment knob on their TV sets all the way down and go back to seeing Bogart in black-and-white. -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Jeff Gottlieb/Los Angeles and Beverley Slopen/Toronto
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York and John Prime/Shreveport