Word: palmier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much is that divine Dufy?" queries a lady sipping white wine slowly from a clear plastic cup. The painting in question is Raoul Dufy's "Le Palmier, Pension Sevigne" and the price high in the thousands. There are half-laughs in the lady's party, and they move on to "a more affordable fantasy," a $2,700 Binet. As you walk away toward Copley Square, the gallery looks like a three dimensional version of one of its pictures. There is the same dichotomy between the warm, brightly lit, glass-walled room and you (heading in the falling-dark...
Studiously Indifferent. Even the routes of retreat, moving around and getting word back were problems for the newsmen. In palmier days American troops had provided helicopters, telephone links and logistical support. Now the South Vietnamese army ran the show, and it was studiously indifferent. When some commercial flights within the country were suspended, newsmen had to turn to charter planes. Said NBC'S TV News vice president, Richard Fischer: "We are totally in the hands of the various crooks who run charter services...
...reduced advertising. Reluctantly, Eustace Tilley wiped off his smirk and rolled up his sleeves. For the first time in its history, the magazine printed a table of contents. Soon afterward, a bold pro motional campaign was launched, an nouncing that The New Yorker, yes, The New Yorker - which in palmier days had had a waiting list of advertisers - was actually soliciting business. Fortunately, the enterprise had accumulated enough wealth - and enough loyal writers, art ists and subscribers - to weather hard times. Today, in a recession period, The New Yorker enjoys much, if not all, of its old stature. Circulation...
...palmier days, the New York Stock Exchange sought to preserve its affluent image and guard against conflicts of interest by sternly forbidding licensed security salesmen of member brokerage firms to take a second job. Lately, however, the exchange has had to greatly relax its longstanding rule against moonlighting. Reason: thousands of expensively trained sales specialists were leaving the brokerage business for other fields, as the stock market's deepening slump dried up commissions. Today, more and more securities salesmen who want to stay in the business and yet continue to eat are doing after-hours stints as bartenders, models...
...acquisition atop another, from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer of The Godfather, which will probably be the biggest moneymaker in cinema history...