Word: horn
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...witty marketing innovations, turned the fledgling, debt-ridden company into a successful competitor; in Dallas. Skirting federal regulations on interstate travel by operating within Texas, he famously slashed fares (flights between several key cities were $20); dressed flight attendants in hot pants; and, to beat a competitor trying to horn in on his cheap prices, kept the low fare--and threw in a free bottle of whiskey...
...rough-hewn voice on hits like Mule Train and Ghost Riders in the Sky; in San Diego. As a young jazz singer, Laine caught the eye of bandleader Mitch Miller, who brought him to Columbia Records. The burly Laine, who said he liked to use his voice "like a horn," sold more than 100 million records and drew new fans in the early '60s for singing the theme to TV's Rawhide...
...each multitalented musicians, and their experimental arrangements range from saxophones and glockenspiels to Knopf’s own digital looping machine. The chorus of “Evil Bee” emulates “The Argument”-era Fugazi before pulling out all the stops with a horn fanfare and triumphant piano riff. Menomena is fearlessly confident in its musicianship, and even the album’s few faltering steps are refreshingly original...
With encouragement from Joan, Simon in his spare time wrote Come Blow Your Horn, about two young brothers moving away from home and trying to leave the family waxed-fruit business for something more artistic. It took 1,200 pages of drafts?some the product of Simon's compulsive perfectionism, some ordered up by a succession of about a dozen potential producers?to get it staged. Says Simon: "If we had closed, I would have folded my tent and gone out to Los Angeles to write My Three Sons for twelve years." Instead, success followed success: Barefoot in the Park...
...spend his life being waited on: he often answers his own telephone, greets people at the door, takes their coats and fetches their drinks. He husbands his money for his family, and has grown more cautious over the years. He invested the first $75,000 from Come Blow Your Horn in "cattle that froze to death in Montana." A far bigger error: selling the TV rights to The Odd Couple to Paramount when it made the movie, on the presumption that it would never become a series?a bad guess that Simon says may have cost him as much...