Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stimulated by the success of mail-order merchandising and the paperback revolution. Even today, perhaps only 2% of the population ever sets foot in a conventional bookstore-and there are only about 1,500 of those. But the U.S. letter-carrier has become the middleman in an enterprise that accounts today for about 15% of the book volume. All told, mail-order houses and book clubs, such as TIME-LIFE Books and the Reader's Digest Book Club, deliver $181 million worth of volumes to the buyers' doors every year. The market has bred a host of specialty...
...students spend $4 billion annually beyond tuition, board and textbooks-but also articulate and highly susceptible to experiment. As such, it is a prime target for the fiercely competitive package-goods manufacturers, who consider the campus the place to establish brand loyalty. By acting as a middleman bringing salesmen and students together, Harris has built a million-dollar business...
...unhappy about Comsat's high rates ($5,245 an hour in prime time). Such companies as A.T.&T. and I.T.T., both customers and part owners of Comsat, want to run its ground stations, and users want to link with Comsat ground stations directly instead of dealing with any middleman...
...Harvey Middleman, Fireman. "Why shouldn't you feel guilty? Aren't you a normal American man?" asks Family Counselor Hermione Gingold. Thereby hangs the tale, and perhaps the whole significance, of Harvey Middleman-fireman, husband, father, and suburban schlemiel. His home, job, wife and children are all lovely in their way, but Harvey (Eugene Troobnick) detests taking out the garbage-for him the symbol of drab conformity. One day he carries a lissome blonde (Patricia Harty) from a burning brownstone. "I'm Harvey," he says hoarsely. "I'm Lois," she whispers, stirring in his arms. They...
Harvey's creator is 33-year-old Ernest Pintoff, a gifted animator who put outsize satirical bite into such prizewinning cartoon shorts as The Interview and The Critic. In his first full-length feature in color, Pintoff has harnessed live actors to a dead horse. Harvey Middleman exudes a bogus air of originality, but is seldom funny enough to make its simplicity seem unpretentious...