Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Color his face red. Ted Turner's, not Orson Welles'. Despite howls that he was committing artistic blasphemy, the Atlanta television and entertainment entrepreneur has applied tints to such classic films as Casablanca and The | Maltese Falcon. Still trying to squeeze fresh profits out of revered movies, Turner vowed to colorize Citizen Kane, the 1941 epic of which Welles was star, producer, director and co-writer...
...need for those smaller colleges to keep providing an influx of fresh blood for Harvard is contingent upon one thing: Will the University's already-tenured professors decide to hold on to their jobs or move aside for the next generation...
...scene, Doctorow depicts a Bronx market, with "every one of the merchants competing with the same oranges and apples and tangerines and peaches and plums for the same prices," and where merchants shout out their prices. "They called Missus, look, I got the best, feel this grapefruit, fresh Georgia peaches just in. They talked they cajoled and the women shopping talked back...
...Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania, a 22-year-old from Illinois named Donald Morrison landed a job at TIME in New York City and was searching for an apartment on the Upper West Side. This otherwise ordinary venture happened to occur in the extraordinary year of 1968. And so Morrison, looking for a Columbia University student willing to share his digs, found himself instead stranded inside Hamilton Hall just as campus activists took over the building. To escape, Morrison recalls, "I dived out a bathroom window in the back...
...many other go-go S & Ls. During the early 1980s its maverick chairman, Charles Knapp, furiously pumped up the company's growth with brokered deposits and high-risk loans. When the thrift suffered a run on deposits in 1984, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board seized American and installed fresh management. But the new team gambled and failed in a multibillion-dollar investment in mortgage-backed securities. When the Bank Board went looking for help again, it eventually decided to grant exclusive bargaining rights to the Robert M. Bass Group, which had already taken over such properties as the Westin...