Word: moguling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week New York mogul ABE HIRSCHFELD was charged with trying to have a former business partner killed, the latest twist in a career pockmarked with wild unpredictability. A brief resume...
Predictably, he became the first Hollywood mogul to embrace television. The show with him as host for over a decade became not just a profit center for his company but also a promotional engine for all its works. These included chuckleheaded live-action comedies, nature documentaries that relentlessly anthropomorphized their subjects, and, of course, Disneyland, which attracted his compulsive attention...
...candidates for cruel bosses were women, mostly because so few bosses are women. But Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean, played evil stepmom to all the employees of her husband, New York City real estate mogul Harry Helmsley. She fired employees at a whim (one for taking an apple from the kitchen while working through lunch) and had that rich-person disease of being paranoid that everyone was stealing from her; meanwhile, she was convicted of tax evasion. Even one of her lawyers called her a "tough bitch...
...thing as a secret American Dream, it has many more rooms than inhabitants and gold-plated fixtures to boot. We all crave stately pleasure domes, such Xanadus as William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon and Bill Gates' new ode to monstrosity in Seattle. But only the occasional hyper-mogul ever attains one. These opulent shrines to capitalism we regard with a mixture of envy, awe and abhorrence: "Isn't that ridiculous--nobody needs a house that big." Or, "Just think how hard it would be to keep that thing clean." The fact that he or she has a Xanadu...
...lives in: the U.S. of A., in which throngs cheered the heavy-metal band Motorhead when it performed Eat the Rich and where Garth Brooks became a megastar for crooning about having friends in "low places," even if by doing so he has made himself into a country-music mogul with a bodacious estate of his own. Still, every country singer since Hank Williams has made his fans want to burn the mansions on the hill to the ground. It's simply not American to root for a guy who has elevators in his house. This is why the American...