Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antitrust clause that forbids the Federal Communications Commission from allowing Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch to keep the New York Post and Boston Herald as well as television stations in each city...
...following days, though, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 revealed he had urged Hollings to take measures against the Boston Herald, a holding of Australian born media mogul Rupert Murdoch which routinely blasts Kennedy and his liberal colleagues in the Massachusetts congressional delegation. The only principle on which Kennedy and Hollings acted was that it's okay for senators to put their personal political agendas before the public's interests as long as they do so behind closed doors...
Anyone who is tired of hearing about Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump's latest megadeal or his timely escape, unscathed, from the stock-market crash may have felt a certain satisfaction last week. According to FTC: Watch, a biweekly newsletter that reports on the Federal Trade Commission, the agency has asked the Justice Department to prosecute the New York developer for illegal use of a "parking agreement." Under such an arrangement, a corporate raider employs one or more third parties, like an investment bank, to help him secretly amass shares in a takeover target in violation of federal law. Trump...
...title Dangerous Affection (originally Hit and Run); for Nov. 30, the network has scheduled a mystery called Fatal Confession (originally Father Dowling). And the title of Larry Cohen's detective movie Love You to Death was changed before release to Deadly Illusion. Perhaps, even at this moment, some literate mogul is optioning the Don Quixote epilogue, in which a man, sure of his wife's fidelity, persuades his best friend to woo her, and the result is hot sex and violent death. Hollywood could even keep Cervantes' title for the tale: Fatal Curiosity...
...bitter twist, and Pfeiffer adds her own tasty mix of sweetness and vinegar. A Table at Ciro's, from a Budd Schulberg story, resorts to broader caricature, as some familiar Hollywood types (washed-up director, naive ingenue, swaggering Latin lover) gather at a dinner hosted by a powerful studio mogul. But Darren McGavin plays the bigwig with such bemused dignity that the character seems brand...