Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchestral sound." Soprano Benita Valente, who sang there before and after the renovations, calls it a "little brighter, but glorious." Violinist Isaac Stern, president of Carnegie Hall and one of the leaders in the fight to save it from demolition in 1960, says, "What you hear now is this golden wash of sound, and at the same time there is clarity...
...pain. More companies than ever before are relying on early-retirement schemes and generous severance packages to entice voluntary resignations as a means of meeting slimming goals. For some employees, no amount of compensation can adequately make up for the loss of the job. But for others, the golden handshake can provide a liberating opportunity to get out of a dead-end job and start afresh somewhere else...
...gives Supporting Players Nicol Williamson and James Hong juicy vignettes. He gives Winger a role that taps her smarts, humor and goofy-gorgeous smile. And he gives Russell the movie. In the past she has mainly graced the films of her husband Nicolas Roeg. Here she emerges as a golden girl with looks that kill. Separately, Russell and Winger make movie history: a detective and a villain, both women. Together, they fuse as a feminist femme fatale...
There's token rock and roll number, and one hilarious swipe at the last gasp of the Golden Age of Hollywood, as Buck and his singing group, the High Hopes, don spangled over-alls for "Put the Blame on Mamie (She Painted the White House Pink)" from the smash film that should've been, The Mamie Eisenhower Story.But the show never strays too far from its home, the nite-club, where "Song-stylists" moan torch songs and members of a capella groups strive, in the true spirit of the age, to be utterly indistinguishable from each other...
...chairman of J. Walter Thompson, the fifth largest advertising agency in the U.S., Joseph O'Donnell was one of Madison Avenue's golden boys. During his ten years at the agency, he had raced ever upward through the ranks. At the start of the year O'Donnell at 44 had defeated several rivals to become the chief at Thompson and the heir apparent to Don Johnston, the 59-year-old chairman of the J.W.T. Group, the holding company (estimated 1986 sales: $650 million) that owns the ad agency. Further triumphs seemed assured...