Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James" tends to his more extravagant creations. It skimps on his coats, for whose easeful geometry he was particularly renowned, but it does still manage to convey not only the spirit of a great designer but a suggestion of his essence. And anyone who wants to argue that a maker of fashion can be an artist could do no better than to start here. The ground in the vicinity seems particularly firm underfoot...
...transistors, and the scramble was on to profit from them. William Shockley, one of the transistor's three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young, aggressive maker of exploration gear for the oil industry, Texas Instruments, had already hired away another Bell Labs star, Gordon Teal, and was churning out the little gadgets. So were old-line tube makers such as General Electric, RCA, Sylvania and Raytheon. Much of their production went to the Pentagon, which found...
...three years as the first female president of a major U.S. film studio, 20th Century-Fox Productions Chief Sherry Lansing, 38, has overseen exactly one big box-office hit: Porky's, a pickup from an independent film maker. But that commercial success was far outnumbered by such turkeys as Monsignor, Making Love, Six Pack and Author! Author! In The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, Fox finally has a critically acclaimed smasheroo, but Lansing will not be around to reap the rewards. Last week she resigned her post, which paid $300,000 a year, plus bonuses...
Torch Song Trilogy. Son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, Playwright Harvey Fierstein began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16. As he enacts the key role, he vividly evokes a mode of life that is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching...
Lewis and his wife LeAnn, 35, had eluded a citywide hunt for two months. Using the alias Robert Richardson, Lewis allegedly sent a handwritten note to Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, demanding $1 million "if you want to stop the killing." By the time his name had surfaced as a suspect in the actual Tylenol poisonings, the Lewises had fled Chicago and were hiding in a New York City hotel room. From there, Lewis mailed letters to the Chicago Tribune to deny any connection to the killings. Investigators, hoping that Lewis was regularly scanning the Tribune...