Word: panning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RICHARD BRANSON writing about Pan Am founder Juan Trippe is a little cheeky on our part, given that Trippe was a renegade who took on the entire industry for the right to create cheaper fares, while Branson, founder of Virgin Airlines, is a renegade who...well, you get the idea. Branson is probably the most colorful tycoon of his generation, with a penchant for starting new businesses and crash-landing balloons...
...business school standards, Juan Trippe was not a model chief executive. He didn't delegate well. He made big deals without telling his top managers. He almost single-handedly built a world airline, Pan American, but often acted as if he owned the world. He also had a vision that would change it, at least as regards airline travel. While his Pan Am does not survive today, his vision does...
...taxi service for the well-heeled. When that failed, he raised money from some wealthy Yale pals and joined Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract, between New York City and Boston. That same crowd liked to play in the Caribbean (excellent choice), where he created Pan American Airways Inc. from a merger of three groups. Trippe began service with a flight from Key West, Fla., to Havana, Cuba...
From a totally different angle, however, to have your hands squishing happily in the dough also can't be beat. One can hardly finish lining the pan and criss-crossing the top of the raspberry jam in time to fulfill the basic human need to lick the beaters. And cooking engages me on a intellectual as well as emotional level: that rapid stirring can turn a bunch of powders and some well-placed margarine into the stuff of life (in its fully evolved forms of croissants, cookies and delicate pie crusts) seems nothing less than a miracle. Kneading...
...Academy Award-winning actor F. MURRAY ABRAHAM destined to be Mr. Roarke? Both hosts of Fantasy Island, Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell, have also played villains in Star Trek movies. Now Abraham has donned the latex for Star Trek: Insurrection. He plays Ru'afo, an alien Peter Pan. "Ru'afo's like so many of us who never want to grow old," says the actor, "but he takes it to terrible extremes, like some of these awful face-lifts you see in Hollywood." His own facial regimen--four hours of makeup daily--did have its perks: "Being really ugly...