Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerge with durable political influence. For the moment, he is pointedly keeping the Religious Right at arm's length to broaden his appeal, and in talks refers to his previous vocation as "businessman," not "evangelist." He has quit the Southern Baptist clergy and ceded control of his Christian Broadcasting Network to Son Timothy. But his organization of volunteers and financial supporters draws heavily upon the Christian Right and is one of the most substantial political infrastructures ever built in the U.S. on a religious base. It should carry Robertson and his smoothly polished message into the 1990s...
Working with a staff of four at the project's headquarters in Big Island, Va., Horne and Buchanan have created a highly efficient distribution network. Farmers are instructed to send their rejects to the nearest food agency, and the project covers their expenses. "At 1 cents per serving in total cost, you can salvage a lot of food for very little money," says Buchanan. However, even with an annual budget of $632,000 (provided by religious organizations and individual contributors), the project still could not afford to ship 10 million lbs. of available potatoes last year...
...phenomenon is the parodies and rip-offs it inspires. Fatal Attraction's success has already been validated by a skit on Saturday Night Live. Last week NBC aired a TV-movie thriller with the sounds- like 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...
...dual citizen of the U.S. and Costa Rica, says the U.S. intelligence community once counted him among its most valuable assets along Nicaragua's southern border. When Congress was constraining the Reagan Administration from supporting the contras' war against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, Hull was a leader of the network that helped sustain the rebels' "southern front." His airstrips were used by planes that supplied U.S. weapons, food and clothes to the contras, his ranch house was the site of delicate negotiations among contra factions, and he was a conduit for money used to support rebel activities. Directly across...
That's a wrap! After laboring for eight 20-hour days on a video-designing project for the American Comedy Network, two Harvard seniors made their mark on the video industry with the completion of two short animated films...