Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participates in a plot to steal Felix's remade movie back from him. He dies defending it ("Don't worry, this could add $10 million to the box office") and is accorded a soundstage funeral-a stained-glass pattern projected on a cyclorama, his wife's guru reading from such sacred works as his list of credits (Chicken at the Wheel, Love on a Pogo Stick) and reports of boffo grosses for his last work. The mourners, of course, go right on making deals and trying to steal one another's lovers...
...sponsors most responsible for supporting sex, profanity and violence on TV, the Mississippi-based Coalition for Better Television abruptly announced that its proposed consumer boycott of the offending advertisers was off-for the moment. Appearing at a Washington press conference with Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly and Moral Majority guru, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, CBTV head, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, explained that productive discussions with executives of the companies in question had made a boycott unnecessary. That explanation echoed the sentiment of Moral Majority Spokesman Cal Thomas: "The networks and advertisers seem to have recognized that they have a moral...
...Before, the music served mainly as an audio calendar, or a mood piece; suddenly, we are supposedly at the very heart of the pop-making scene. A druggie band living in a Haight-Ashbury boarding house picks up Tony and he becomes some sort of mythical rock and roll guru. He composes (Dylan's folk) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" on a bus, the band plays (Jefferson Airplane's rock) Somebody to Love" in concert and later (Jimmy Webb's, pop) "Up, Up, and Away" in a studio...
...people paid up to $445 each to attend his National Committee for Monetary Reform Conference. The people who attend the three-to five-day conclaves are primarily successful businessmen, doctors and attorneys. They are seeking advice on beating inflation and place great emphasis on personal contact with their investment guru. Explains Economist Eliot Janeway, who runs his own seminars: "People go for the same reason that they go to church instead of staying home and reading Scriptures. They like to hear the sermon." Speakers like Ruff and Rukeyser are paid as much as $10,000 for each appearance, but that...
...undisputed guru of the militant left is M.P. Tony Benn. A constant thorn in the side of Labor's parliamentary party, which comprises the elected M.P.s, Benn has held several Cabinet posts in Labor governments since he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1950. A handsome aristocrat who attributes many of his political ideas to the Bible, Benn became a favorite, if unanointed leader of the extreme left for renouncing his peerage...