Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly During a recent desperate search for additional financing (TIME, April 2), Charney and his partner John Veronis had approached a number of large publishing and communications corporations. "What we needed," says Charney, "was a corporate shield to survive. We needed someone to take us on so that Madison Avenue would say, 'O.K., here's an institution, here's stability...
Such bad-mouthing would have been superfluous; advertisers had their own negative ideas. The Charney-Veronis brashness aroused much resentment on Madison Avenue. "The advertising fraternity wanted them to fail," says a New York adman. "Above all, there were a lot of people who thought those two guys did not belong in the magazine business and ought to get out of it." Admits Charney: "Madison Avenue and potential backers had a hard time realizing what Saturday Review was, or should...
...Boston Celtics overcame injuries, a sparkling performance by Walt Frazier, and New York's Madison Square Garden crowd to score an upset 110-100 victory over the New York Knicks last night to even their play-off series at three games apiece...
...them have been killed by a buzz bomb in London in 1944, and they exist, haunted by old loves, fears and hates. Until we learn that they are ghosts, it is assumed that they are merely mad-especially Elsa. She is sure that a shoe salesman in a Madison Avenue shop is really an SS man named Kiel, long defunct, with whom she had a brief liaison during the war at a British intelligence installation. Elsa's shadow falls the wrong way-always a bad sign-and she practices the kind of unpredictable tyranny that only a weak, formerly...
Other rape squads use more conventional preventive measures. The Women's Coalition for Rape Prevention in Madison, Wis., has set up a "women's transit authority" to provide, for a 250 donation, late-night transportation for lone women. Most groups run educational campaigns advising women about ways of discouraging attack. The Los Angeles squad, noting that karate takes years to master, advocates screaming as a possible alternative. Sandy Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels...