Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was still the idea of being a professional writer. Writers like Hemingway and Faulkner were people you were supposed to admire," he said...
...retired auto worker in New York State; he also denies any wrongdoing, and there's no evidence against him either. There are many more examples of Pepper's recklessness, especially in Gerald Posner's new book on the King assassination, Killing the Dream. But you get the idea...
...voice of late. Last month, while Junior was denying that his father was distressed over his decision to sell the company's 25% stake in DuPont in order to buy into Hollywood, Senior suggested in an interview with W magazine that trading nylon for celluloid was a terrible idea. His chagrin is understandable: the DuPont stock, worth $8.8 billion when Seagram sold it in 1995 to pay for its $5.7 billion purchase of Universal, has soared about $9 billion in value. Seagram's stock lags the market, in part because of doubts about Universal, which last year had operating income...
Even at CBS, where prime-time news has had a bumpier road (48 Hours, now in its 11th season, is still plugging along, but Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel has fizzled in the ratings), programmers are toying with an alluring but risky idea: expanding the venerated 60 Minutes to a second night. The chief stumbling block is the people behind 60 Minutes, who fear diluting the show. "We think it's a terrible idea," says executive producer Don Hewitt. "[Network programmers] hope to persuade us. But they haven...
Shortly after becoming ABC News president in 1977, Roone Arledge proposed that the network's struggling evening newscast be switched to 10:30. (The idea didn't fly, and Arledge created Nightline instead.) Former NBC News president Lawrence Grossman recalls that in 1990, after leaving NBC, he suggested to CBS chairman Laurence Tisch that the network should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where...