Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attending college after a year of work on the pipeline. Many people simply work for several months and then go back to their homes for a respite, where, Faulkner said, they go on buying sprees or take trips abroad. "Money is spent in an easy come, easy go fashion," he said. For a young pipeline worker to have a sense of value for a car, a stereo set, or for money itself is difficult when a couple of months on the job can replace almost anything that is lost, destroyed, or that loses its initial glimmer...
Numbers Man. Franklin seems to have fallen victim to his own attempts to bring more scientific management to the diverse, largely fashion-oriented (Henri Bendel, Bonwit Teller) business. Jarman, a numbers man who carries an elaborate pocket calculator, lopped off several divisions, including San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, and slashed 10,000 employees from the payroll. The surgery alienated the heads of many of Genesco's 78 operating divisions, who resented Jarman's lack of merchandising expertise. Some grumbled that Jarman "ran a fashion business as though it were...
...copy of a telegram sent to Murdoch by Screw Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein asking why his is "the only New York publication you haven't tried to buy? P.S. I have feelings too." This week Murdoch will add two pages of features and plans eventually to strengthen coverage of fashion, business, television and sports?especially horse racing. He intends to weed out the paper's overgrown garden of columnists, perhaps adding another conservative. "We're aiming for a fairly sophisticated afternoon paper," he says. "It's very middle class now, and we don't intend to change that...
Millions of readers do, and they utter it with a masochistic tremolo last in fashion when lovestruck ladies knelt before candlelit glossies of Rudolph Valentino carrying a horsewhip. The cute brute of the moment is Dominic Challenger, hero of a new novel called Wicked Loving Lies that sold close to 3 million copies in the first month of publication and forms the leading edge of a new wave of mass literary entertainment. Abandoned by Hollywood as too corny and too expensive to produce, shunned by television as unsuitable for the small screen, the costume epic is taking over the bookstalls...
They demand that he be returned to the airwaves as an angry prophet. Their gambit works; the show's a hit. In domino fashion the old dogs cave in, get fired or die, and the popular-taste programmers take over. They provide scatological offerings around the clock and give UBS its first year in the black...