Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though his tone is far angrier than most, Podhoretz is not the only American Jew to fear a revival of anti-Semitism in the wake of the Lebanon invasion. Says Chicago Radio Producer Sher: "After the 1956 war and the other conflicts up to this time, Israelis were the golden boys, even in the minds of people who at home were anti-Semitic toward American Jews. Now the perception is, 'Hey, these guys are bullies.' " Sher fears that hostility toward Jews historically increases during times of economic trouble like that the U.S. is experiencing...
...takeover battle a wealthy man. If either bid for his company goes through, the Bendix stock that Agee holds will be worth at least $1 million. In addition, Bendix's board of directors voted last week to give the firm's top 16 executives so-called golden-parachute contracts. In Agee's case, this action guarantees him severance pay of about $4 million if he is fired by new management...
...burden. During the past year, a number of News executives had their pay temporarily frozen or cut, arid more than 40 of them, including longtime Editor Michael O'Neill, 59, were eased out. More important, nearly all departures by union members were won voluntarily, and were accompanied by "golden handshakes" averaging more (sometimes much more) than $30,000 per person. Some senior reporters walked away with two or three years' pay. Total severance cost: nearly $50 million...
Jane Fonda has made more than her share of controversial scenes, in the movies and in the headlines, but none has quite matched a certain sylvan sequence in On Golden Pond. She stands on the edge of a dock in Squam Lake, N.H., her body firm and svelte, her skin as burnished as an Indian totem, her bikini two bright tattoos. A shiver or two later, she has backflipped off the dock and sliced into the cold water. As sentimental drama, the moment is effective; as cinema, it is unremarkable; as a display of new-fashioned star quality...
...Pollock, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, complained, "That scene is supposed to be the climax of the film. Instead, it's a commercial for Jane Fonda's Workout Book." If so, the commercial did its job. Work-out (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list (No. 1 for 21 weeks). The book has become the focus for a baby conglomerate that mints money by marketing Fonda's exercise ideology. A 90-min. video cassette showing Fonda and the workout...