Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leigh, whose rigorous improvisational techniques have made him a guru of British theater (Goose-Pimples) and TV (Abigail's Party) for two decades, brings to his work the same anti-Thatcher animus that energizes much of today's British cinema. But unlike Laundrette and the rest, High Hopes derives much of its energy and some of its best comic strokes from a conscious, open acknowledgment that to be postmodern is also to be post-Marxist. In a time when people rise and fall freely, unhindered by traditional class structures, they become, according to Leigh, quite unhinged by their inability...
...John Updike. The scarlet letter on the dust jacket stands for Sarah Worth (nee Price), a wayward Massachusetts wife who runs off to an Indian guru's ashram in Arizona. Her messages home are consistently, if unconsciously, hilarious...
Stewart's audience seems to just grow and grow. Not only has she sold some 1.8 million of her sumptuous coffee-table cookbooks since her first, Entertaining, in 1982, but she has also become at 47 the guru of good taste (and taste buds) in American entertaining, looked to by millions of American women for guidance about everything from weddings to weeding. From her beginnings as a Westport, Conn., caterer, she has risen like cream, until she now supplies her expertise through a newsletter, videos, seminars and lectures. Says Stewart: "I leave a lecture with 800 or 900 new friends...
...didn't change my behavior, I would die," recalls the store owner from Burnsville, Minn. Determined, she went on a liquid-protein diet and lost 120 lbs. Now, a year later, down from a size 44 dress to size 10, Sylvester regards Fonda as her personal exercise guru...
...meet the demands of commercial TV news. The past had taught them that although a candidate might deliver a thoughtful speech, if he tripped and fell as he left the stage, that was all anyone would see on the news. TV covers only three things, says Bush's media guru, Roger Ailes, "visuals, attacks and mistakes." Broadcast news, agrees Michael Deaver, Ronald Reagan's former imagemaker, is "primarily concerned with entertainment values...