Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sauntered into school the next morning, gift in hand. I tucked in my t-shirt, tied my shoelaces, and splashed on a little of Dad's cologne for good luck. I felt very studly...
Ovitz, who shares power with CAA co-founders Ron Meyer, 44, and Bill Haber, 46, has shown an uncanny touch for putting stories and stars together. The agency had a hand in assembling the elements of four current box-office hits: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Twins and Scrooged. Among its TV successes are Golden Girls and Beauty and the Beast. Says Barry Diller, chief executive of Fox Inc.: "CAA represents a lot of good people, and is very aggressive in how they link them to each other. It's all about selling, and they're very good...
...Ovitz hopes to work an even richer literary vein. In December Janklow announced a surprise merger with longtime ICM literary agent Lynn Nesbit, whose clients include Tom Wolfe, Ann Beattie and Michael Crichton. According to sources close to the negotiations, the publishing coup was arranged by the invisible hand of Michael Ovitz...
...video arcade. Colorful blocks, spinning charts, precarious balance beams and computerized gizmos with flashing lights all vie for the eye's attention. The games and gadgetry are the tools of "vision therapy," an increasingly popular but controversial program that aims at making the eye as quick as the hand through exercise and training...
...other hand, Gorbachev makes about seven times the average Soviet wage. (George Bush, at $200,000, makes ten times the average annual American income.) And don't forget the perks: a limousine, a Moscow apartment, a dacha, hand-delivered groceries. Korotich also disclosed that Gorbachev donated $600,000 in foreign royalties from his book Perestroika, to the Communist Party. Are you listening, Jim Wright...