Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Byerly's. In the 19 years since Don Byerly, now 47, opened his first store in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley, he has almost never publicly advertised a product or price. "We spend the advertising money on service," he explains. The payoff has been impressive. There are seven Byerly's outlets in the Minneapolis area, and an eighth is under construction. Sales for the chain reached $135 million last year, and are expected to climb to $150 million in 1987. Byerly analyzes his success this way: "The only reason people will come back to our store is because...
These aides regard Tuesday's State of the Union speech as Reagan's golden -- and perhaps last -- chance to reassert his leadership. The address has assumed near epic public relations proportions because Reagan has pretty much been under wraps since Iranscam erupted in late November. Following his prostate operation in early January, says one White House official, Nancy Reagan "was yelling -- and I mean yelling -- insisting that her husband be given the same four-to-six-week recovery time that any other man would get." So virtually every appearance for six weeks has been canceled except the State...
Behind a Dumpster sits a man who calls himself Red enjoying the last drops of a bottle of wine called Wild Irish Rose. It's 1 a.m., and the thermometer hovers around 20 degrees, with a biting wind. His nickname comes from a golden retriever his family once had back in Memphis, and a sparkle comes to his eyes as he recalls examples of the dog's loyalty. One day he plans to get another dog, and says, "I'm getting to the point where I can't talk to people. They're always telling me to do something...
...President of the U.S. and his Secretary of the Treasury in a frantic effort to save the international monetary system. It was short on narrative technique but long on expertise. There was no panting sex, and the sharks wore three-piece suits. Yet Erdman, like Bernie Cornfeld, another tarnished golden boy of the period, had a sheaf of raffish publicity behind him, and the novel became a best seller...
...refused to see that Viet Nam was different. All the old givens -- beau geste, military master plans, unswerving belief in the officer class -- were fatally irrelevant to a guerrilla war. Forget the World War II narrative line of tanks and tactics, which moved with the ponderous sweep of a Golden Age Hollywood plot. Viet Nam, set in jungles without beginning or end, was a flash of episodic, aleatory explosions; it was modernism brought to war. And a new kind of war demanded a new look at the war-movie genre. Platoon fills the bill. It is a huge black slab...