Word: mavericking
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...severe setback, Turner seemed determined not to give up. He talked of raising enough financing to make a cash bid for CBS or perhaps staging a proxy fight for control of the network at its annual meeting next spring. Meanwhile, reports at week's end suggested that the broadcast maverick may already have his eyes on another takeover target: entertainment giant MGM-UA. ENTERTAINMENT Ratin' Rock 'n' Roll...
Similarly, he had reservations about the swarming of poets into U.S. colleges and universities after World War II, even as he joined the throng. Teaching, which he called "the next thing to hereditary wealth," paid his bills, but the maverick artist in him rebelled against "this whole literary-academic, semi-fashionable, established accepting-things-at-their-own-valuation world." Privately, he bit the doddering hands that fed him: "The faculty of the college are very much like the city of Greensboro [N.C.]--though this is doing an injustice to several trees which are cleverer than several of this faculty...
Once a poster boy for Europe's resurgent far-right parties, Jörg Haider has been living a much quieter life as Governor of Carinthia, a big fish in the small pond of Austria's southernmost province, since stepping down as party leader in 2000. Now, the maverick politician is making waves again - and the turbulence is rocking Austria's coalition government. In 1999, Haider and his Freedom Party (FPO) took 27% of the vote in parliamentary elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party...
...DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own Northern Ireland-based company, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, New Jersey. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance the failing company-which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) His stainless steel two-seater with doors that open upwards like a gull's wings did not sell, but won lasting fame as the time-travelling vehicle in the 1985 film...
DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own company in Northern Ireland, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, N.J. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance his failing company, which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) Although he did not sell many of his stainless-steel two-seaters, whose doors open upward like gulls' wings, the DeLorean won lasting fame as the time-traveling vehicle...