Word: faux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway Producer Alexander H. Cohen's 5½-hour benefit for the Actors' Fund. It was a bad dream that will soon go public. The proceedings, staged before a large and increasingly stupefied audience last week, will be shorn of the technical glitches, gaping pauses and personal faux pas that lent the show a kind of desperate piquancy. Edited down for a three-hour ABC time slot, Night of 100 Stars will be sent out over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander...
...faux pas like these are the rare exception. Usually the dinners came off without a hitch--and with a luxurious elegance unusual in Cambridge. As Mitchell quotes one guest of honor, Dean Fox, "People don't do things like this anymore--it's something they would have done in the previous century...
Around Mitsubishi headquarters, the arrangement with Chrysler became known as "a serious faux pas." Earlier this year, the company finally succeeded in pressuring Chrysler into relaxing its marketing hold by offering the ailing automaker import-financing help of up to $150 million a year. Beginning in the fall of 1982, Mitsubishi will be able to set up and operate its own U.S. dealer network, as well as sell cars and trucks through Chrysler outlets. Even so, it may not be until 1983, and the end of voluntary import restrictions, that Mitsubishi can push its export drive into high gear...
...class-at starting salaries approaching $30,000. At Stanford, the 1980 median starting salary was $31,998, up 16% over the previous year. One Stanford graduate got a bid of $52,000. A Harvard graduate was offered $59,000. The students are correspondingly euphoric. Says Chicago's Geoffrey Faux, 26: "By going to an elite business school, I'm giving a signal of my potential for success...
...most constipated human being on earth." Forget many of the chauvinistic clichés of the past. (Chauvin, after all, was a Frenchman.) Par exemple, the book points out, "the notion that the Americans could produce anything good to eat or drink used to make us giggle." Faux. Actually, there are several restaurants in New York (run mostly by Frenchmen) that would rank with some of the best in Paris. American restaurants, the book says, "are infinitely more elaborate, elegant and artful than ours." Also, in New York at least, there have never been so many good ones. There...