Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boeing: builder of strategic bombers, ballistic missiles and jumbo jets. Boeing: the nation's 29th largest industrial company, but a firm with a plain-talking chairman of the board, Thornton ("T") Wilson, who drives unpretentiously around Seattle in a Honda instead of the company limousine. Boeing: the best planemaker in the world today, eclipsing all competition in the civilian aircraft business...
...niggardly name, rank and serial number of temperature highs and lows but also the larger meteorological events: cold sweeping down from Canada, a warm front out of the Gulf Stream or the metastasis of a storm from Martinique. It may sometimes sound like a cheerful patter of mumbo jumbo and Celsius conversions, like a lounge comedian who did a semester at M.I.T., but on the whole, people learn what they want to know. The audience pays weathercasters the compliment of its attention, and advertisers pay the compliment of their dollars. The weather is always among the surest draws on local...
...electronic record, and that he would produce it for his new independent label. By that point, however, Gary Numan had the near world eating out of his metal palm; it was all too easy to imagine Foxx copying his own imposter, and slapping together a buch of machine mumbo-jumbo with titles like "Submarining with the Aliens" and "The Aliens Meet the Happy Hollisters...
...nation with the possible exception of Nigeria, an oil exporter, is still considered a good credit bet. Apart from Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Malaysia, all of the Far East is out. In South America, only Brazil and Venezuela, another major oil producer, can still count on jumbo loans. For most of the developing world, the borrowing spree is just about over...
...World and Jumbo in the early '60s, lis film appearances were generally unmemorable. He was at his best playing New York theaters and nightclubs, where lis free-wheeling (but never blue) imagination could run riot. In a typical turn, Durante would good-naturedly insult waiters, fire off his ineffable quips ("Surrounded by assassins"), and let loose with his nonsensical songs (Inka Dinka Doo). He delighted in flinging props at the band or in ripping apart his piano for laughs. When Durante took his antics to radio in the '40s and television in the '50s, he found millions...