Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guitarist/songwriter/singer for a critically respected British blues band that played 20-minute songs, Dire Straits. Now, thanks to "Money For Nothing," a ZZ Top parody that happened to hit Number One, this small man with a balding John McEnroe "hairstyle" is an arena giant, a jukebox hero and an heir apparent to such names as Page, Clapton, Townshend--and yes, Van Halen. Mark Knopfler just doesn't know quite what to do with his sudden fame...
...mortality. Even for secure, welladjusted CEOs it can be an unpleasant experience. Certainly it has proved a difficult task for Harry Jack Gray, 65, the chairman of Hartford-based United Technologies. Four potential successors have come and gone at United Technologies during the past six years. Last September, Heir Apparent Robert Carlson suddenly resigned as president, amid reports that Gray had allegedly wiretapped his office and home. An investigation by the company's directors uncovered no evidence of such skulduggery...
...personally selected Jane Mynors' nursery school in west London, but still could not help asking Mynors, "You will look after him?" For his part, Prince William, 3, maintained his regal composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay modeling, painting...
...Heir presumptive to Jean--Jacques Beneix's Diva and Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing...
Benazir, who is regarded as the heir to her father's leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, spent three years under house arrest in Pakistan before being allowed to travel to Britain. Zia allowed her to return only on condition that Shahnawaz's funeral not be used to rally antigovernment sentiment. The regime ordered an extraordinary show of force at Karachi airport for the arrival of the plane from Zurich bearing Benazir and her brother's remains. Nearly 1,000 heavily armed Pakistani security personnel, backed by armored paramilitary vehicles, set up roadblocks...