Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What price privacy? At the moment, $80,000 and up. That is the tag on a custom-made "contemplative environment"-the latest extravaganza offered in the Neiman-Marcus department-store Christmas catalogue. "Very basically, it's enclosure, the womb," declares the environment's design chief, Richard Stonis. While it is not exactly Walden Pond, the plush private world is like a self-contained dollhouse that can be outfitted with film screens to show custom-made movies, a stand-up bar, isometric exercise equipment, a round water bed and anything else the purchaser might desire...
...various elements in Eastern and Western religions, with a healthy measure of Western-style hero-worship thrown in. The Cao Dai, whose temples were adorned with the Masonic eye, considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered and dropped as a candidate for sainthood at about the same time...
...pretensions of youth. Gone are such shows as The Young Lawyers and The Young Rebels. Their replacements treat age with more deference. An older and a younger detective collaborate in solving cases in The Streets of San Francisco; an older and a younger doctor pool their skills in Marcus Welby, M.D. A new show, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, starts this month. While Bob and Carol are in their swinging 20s, Ted and Alice are more conventional over...
...sweeten the deals have been small. One minute of commercial time on CBS's All in the Family had a record list price of $128,000; a minute on NBC's Sanford & Son commanded as high as $90,000; and a minute on ABC's Marcus Welby, M.D. cost $76,000. Total prime-time advertising sales so far in 1973 are running 15% ahead of last year. Says Mike Weinblatt, NBC-TV vice president of sales, the record bookings are a "vote of confidence" in the economy...
Died. Frederick Marcus Warburg, 75, sportsman, philanthropist, and for 42 years an internationally minded senior partner and so-called "foreign minister" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of Wall Street's oldest and most powerful banking and investment firms; of heart disease; in Winchester...