Word: pizazz
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Anonymous pain vs. heroic pizazz, a crucible vs. a crowd pleaser. A low, labyrinthine, long-abandoned Government compound and a high, bright, popular symbol. The place where the undesirables among the huddled masses were culled out and sent packing; the monument that summarizes in one grand, gilded-age stroke a nation's noblest intentions. The two islands make a compelling yin- and-yankee pair. Alone, neither the Mother of Exiles nor the Island of Tears fairly represents the American story. But together, they tell something like the whole truth...
...competitors, most notably Boss Film Corp. (started by former ILM Special-Effects Supervisor Richard Edlund), which created the special effects for Ghostbusters and this summer's Poltergeist II. But for its combination of technical resources, expertise and sheer filmmaking pizazz, ILM deserves that highest of compliments in the techno-'80s: state of the art. "They're a wonderful think tank," says Robert Zemeckis, director of Back to the Future. "One of the biggest tragedies in Hollywood is that no one puts money into research and development. ILM is trying to break new ground...
...billion, is low-keyed, given to such simple boasts as "We sell more kinds of food and more of it." That tone may soon change. Last week General Foods was taken over by Philip Morris (1984 revenues: $13.8 billion), whose Marlboro man and Virginia Slims woman exemplify marketing pizazz...
...year and a half, just when Nabokov's Humbert Humbert and Kerouac's romantics were on the road. Recalls Hollein: "It was just incredible to me the space you have here, the sense of freedom." Seeing the West provoked a kind of epiphany. A generation ago, before pizazz had become architecturally fashionable, Hollein was out there on his own, learning from Las Vegas...
...networks, whose highrise towers constitute a kind of Broadcast Row along midtown Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, Capital Cities Communications occupies a small building a few blocks away. Its corporate headquarters is home base < for only 33 employees, from the mail clerk to Chairman Thomas Murphy. In an industry where pizazz often seems as important as performance, Capital Cities does not even have a public relations department, let alone an organizational chart. Says Murphy: "I've never believed in a lot of reports and memos...