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Moya Olsen Lear, now chairman of Lear Avia, is the inventor's fourth wife and the mother of four of his seven children. She was introduced to Lear by her father, Ole Olsen, who was half of the Olsen and Johnson comedy team. Despite Lear's well-known womanizing, they stayed married for 36 years. Moya concentrated on her needlepoint and listened to Lear's descriptions of his latest inventions. Once she stitched the names of her husband's girlfriends and presented the needlepoint to him in a frame. One name was in purple because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen Lear | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

Like that innovative inventor in the land of Balnibarbi, the U.S. is scrambling to discover new energy supplies as well as different and unusual ways of using and saving its energy. But while many bureaucrats, multinational companies and politicians see nuclear power, coal and more oil finds as the solution, the nation's growing number of energy enthusiasts promote the idea that the answers to the fuel crisis already exist somewhere, unrecognized and underused. The only difficulty, they argue, is getting them out of some creative minds and into practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Endowed Energy Innovators | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...plot line: Aggy (Angela Paton), ex-Wife from hillbilly country, remeets ex-Husband Berto (Jerry Stiller), a failed inventor. Her ostensible purpose is repossession of mingy personal belongings. Her real purpose: repossession of Hubby, a toasty-warm, sentimental, well-endowed Mediterranean stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Italo-Boffo | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

Energy issues have been the most successful Denver stocks. But the flourishing market has also drawn out the kooks and the cons. The inventor of a tennis racquet with adjustable tension that permits cannonball serves and puffball returns was unable to find anyone to underwrite his scheme. One of the top promoters behind Great Plains Mineral Byproducts Inc., which claimed to have a process for extracting gold, silver and platinum from the residue of burnt coal, turned out to have a record of three fraud convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Denver Pennies | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...pathetically funny inventor, Ed Redlich dominates the stage with inexhaustible energy that is unfortunately misdirected. His George is too blustery and dumbfounded--can this really be the same man that once invented a machine gun that could make tea while firing? George Riley should express the faded dignity of old England; he is an intelligent, romantic man who somehow got switched onto the wrong track and can no longer find his way back. To feel pity for George, we must believe in his past, and Redlich fails to express this. He is too young, loud, and energetic...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Stoppard's Timepiece | 4/9/1980 | See Source »

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