Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent extortion scheme suggests that the current intrigue between the Mob and Hollywood may be every bit as spicy as it was in Lansky's heyday. MCA, Inc., the conglomerate seeking video rights to the movie, has suspended Eugene Giaquinto, president of its Home Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk...
...CINDERS. Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., which revives musicals from the heyday of tuneful fluff, has a charmer in this gender reversal of Cinderella...
...CINDERS. Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., which revives musicals from the heyday of tuneful fluff, has a charmer in this gender reversal of Cinderella...
...heyday of yellow journalism at the turn of the century, powerful publishers such as William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer did not hesitate to draft their newspapers into the service of a pet cause. Remember the Maine? But as papers strove for more credibility with readers and advertisers, publishers were banished from the newsroom, establishing a firm division that was often compared to the constitutional separation of church and state. These days, however, with economic and cultural changes wrenching the newspaper industry, many journalists are concerned that the once sacred boundary between business and editorial departments has begun to blur...
...last week, Fed chairman Greenspan noted that current tax law encourages corporate borrowing. Companies, for example, can write off the interest on their loans. Greenspan suggested that Congress consider whether the tax incentives that are helping fuel the trend are still prudent. If Congress takes Greenspan's advice, the heyday of big-time buyouts could come...