Word: kaufman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page opinion, Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the appeals court said that the fact that Kodak dominated its field was no reason to penalize it for having taken the lead with the 110 system. "The mere possession of monopoly power does not ipso facto condemn a market participant," Kaufman wrote. Moreover, he added, "the first firm, even a monopolist, to design a new camera format has a right to the lead time that follows from its success...
Kodak officials were naturally delighted with the decision, though their court troubles may not be over. Berkey may try to appeal Kaufman's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, or it can return to the district court with the part, of its suit that Kaufman said must be retried (this involved alleged abuses by Kodak of its dominant position in the photographic-paper market...
...When I perform, it's very personal," Kaufman says. "I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room." He means this literally. The Mighty Mouse record he sings along to is his own, from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice tracts-were long-ago gifts from his grandfather. "The audience," says his collaborator Bob Zmuda, 29, "is asked to become babies again." This is a sort of low-level exercise in primal manipulation that might turn precious, like a Steve Martin extravaganza of silliness. But Kaufman, whether he chooses...
...Kaufman is at his best and most challenging when he does not let anyone in on the joke, doesn't even admit there's a joke at all. The playroom innocence of Kaufman's live show is a touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have...
...Tony doppelgänger appears beside Andy to take bows at the end of the show. Kaufman insists Clifton is a real person he once mimicked, who is now appearing in person. "Everyone thinks he's me," Kaufman says. "It's really destroying Tony's career." It is clear that Kaufman's comedy in every incarnation is like a full-dress masque that sets new rules, tests new limits. "I never told a joke in my life," he says, with pride. The essence of his gift, the full range of his promise, is just this simple...