Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bodyguard from the return flight to Baghdad -- again with the Turkish air force escorting -- to make room for Prager, Gart and photographer Thomas Hartwell. For Gart, the extended interview provided "one of the more memorable experiences" in 40 years of journalism. "It was like being on a magic carpet," he says, "but I wouldn't have wanted to be there too much longer...
...also includes the harmonic and rhythmic vitality of jazz? The line from Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar to Frederick Loewe and Richard Rodgers is really very short. Far from being an exotic and irrational entertainment, opera is the most vital and popular of musical forms. Is Mozart's The Magic Flute, composed in the vernacular for the Viennese commercial theater, stuffy high art just because it is 200 years old and occasionally performed at the Met? That would be news to Mozart, who craved popular esteem and pointed to it as a proof of artistry. Are Bernstein's Candide, Gian...
...company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially rich source of leverage for a pushy buyer? Concludes James Scott, professor of finance at Columbia Business School: "There is no magic number anymore. There is no safety in size...
...cover of its inaugural NBA issue asks: Who's the greatest? The magazine gives the reader three options: Boston's Larry Bird, Chicago's Michael Jordan and Los Angeles' Magic Johnson...
...Magic might have enough personality to pass the test. But Larry Bird...