Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That Reagan was proposing to undo a lot of Johnson's "too great society" was another of the wonderful ironies of this risky moment in U.S. affairs. "Reagan is not the first person to talk this way," points out Harvard's Roger Porter, who worked in Gerald Ford's White House, "but Reagan is the first President to act this way." Reagan has burst upon the academic reveries of the historians and political scientists as something-at last-real. He is no longer celluloid. "There is a logic to his boldness," says Porter. "Something less would lead...
Auto dealers have spent most of their time since the introduction of the new models last October whistling in deserted showrooms. But despite persistent complaints about high sticker prices, and a sales debacle that is heading into its third year, General Motors and Ford staunchly refused to offer cash rebates. Said then General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy less than three months ago: "In the final analysis, I don't think rebates are a good way to stimulate the market...
...lose a zillion, by Francis Ford Coppola...
Laid on at a cost of $4,000, it was a banquet fit for a movie king: white and green pasta, chicken with mozzarella and prosciutto, strawberries dipped in chocolate, vintage wine. Francis Ford Coppola, 41, the director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, had invited 100 journalists to inspect the most elaborate toy a movie-mad boy could hope to own: Zoetrope Studios, the 10½-acre Hollywood production lot he bought early in 1980 to make his own films and those of fiercely loyal independent moviemakers he has invited to join him. This, he hoped, would...
...week for their pink-and-green, 9-ft. by 12-ft. cubicles, ran largely to aspiring models and actresses. Many ran far, among them Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, Gene Tierney, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Bel Geddes, Dorothy McGuire, Liza Minnelli, Ali MacGraw, Candice Bergen, Cloris Leachman. Eileen Ford stabled her young models at the Barbizon. The Katharine Gibbs secretarial school reserved three floors for its students...