Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, when Microsoft (1982 sales: $34 million), the Bellevue, Wash., company that developed the operating system used on the IBM personal computer, wanted someone to run its marketing program, it looked to the cosmetics industry. Last month Microsoft hired Rowland Hanson, vice president of Neutrogena, a maker of skin-care products, as head of marketing and public relations. Admits Hanson: "When I came here I didn't even know how to turn a computer on." But he does know how to sell packaged goods. Says company President Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft...
...film fancy it becomes the house that Bergman built: an edifice constructed of 40 films in nearly 40 years, and filled with ghosts and demons, strong women and tortured men, knights playing chess with Death, and human souls wrestling themselves to a fine stalemate. In this house the film maker, a great artist with the imagination of a lonely child, keeps spinning spooky fairy tales of the 20th century spirit...
Many of the businesses still open are deeply in debt. Sales of Rodacarga Co., a maker of materials-handling equipment, shrank from $20 million to less than $5 million as the peso became worth less and less and the austerity program began taking hold. A loan the company has from Philadelphia's Girard Bank now exceeds its entire peso capital. The firm's order backlog, usually nine months, has dropped to four. Company President Carlos Lopez has been forced to close down two of his company's three plants and lay off 362 of his 509 workers...
DIED. Louise Weiss, 90, author, playwright, film maker and galvanizing feminist who in recent years, as the oldest member of the European Parliament, pressed her vision of a revivified Continental consciousness; in Paris. Founder and editor of her own influential magazine, L 'Europe Nouvelle, from 1918 to 1934, she left to campaign for female suffrage, once chaining herself with friends across the Rue Royale to block traffic. In 1936 Weiss was offered a Cabinet post if she would desist; she refused. French women finally got the vote...
...Coup de Foudre, French Film Maker Diane Kurys (Peppermint Soda) etched an acute, critical portrait of her own family in the early 1950s and drew splendid performances from Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Chantal Akerman, a Belgian director whose monumental minimalist soap opera, the 1975 Jeanne Dielman, has made her queen of the European film avantgarde, confounded all expectations with a sprightly, witty musical called The '80s. The Cannes audience came to snooze and stayed to cheer...