Word: phil
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...chairman and founder of Nike Inc. and the protagonist of Swoosh is Phil Knight, a former distance runner at the University of Oregon and a laconic accountant who thought it would be more enjoyable to sell shoes than balance checkbooks. He started out representing a Japanese running shoe called Tiger but realized he could create and hawk his own American shoe. Nike was named for the winged Greek goddess of victory and given the now familiar "Swoosh" logo (at the time, someone said it resembled an upside-down Puma insignia). At first Nike made shoes for serious runners...
...ultimate talking-head festival. The producers of The Class of the 20th Century, a 13-week documentary series debuting this week on the Arts & Entertainment Network, have assembled what seems like every prominent American they could round up (Milton Berle, Isaac Stern, Dr. Jonas Salk, Phil Donahue) and invited them to talk about, well, everything. The idea is to recap the major events of the 20th century through the eyes of people who experienced them. The ostensible purpose: to create a "time capsule" of our era for people of the year 3000. "This is not a history," says host Richard...
...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...
...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...
...CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU FROM PHIL SPECTOR (ABKCO Records). A card-carrying classic; not only the definitive Christmas house shaker but also a paradigm of Wagnerian rock at its most ingenuous. From the Ronettes melting the heart of Frosty the Snowman to Darlene Love's soul-scorching Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), this is Phil Spector's grandest production...