Word: sacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the capitalization changes, Hoffmann-La Roche is certain to retain the air of genteel mystery that has long surrounded it. Control will remain in the hands of the Basel-based Sachers. The family, one of Switzerland's leading cultural benefactors, is headed by Maja Sacher, 93, and her second husband Paul, 83. Maja Sacher's first husband, Emanuel Hoffmann, son of the company's founder, died in a car crash in 1932. A prominent patron of modern art, Maja Sacher has endowed Basel's museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores...
...years ago, the Sacher family called in Gerber, who headed the Zurich Insurance Co., to take over Hoffmann-La Roche, whose Valium profits had tranquilized it into lethargy. He streamlined the administration, production and research and set out to find a new generation of superstar drugs. The antibiotic Rocephin, which had worldwide sales last year of $445 million, is currently the firm's largest-selling product. Valium, though, remains the second-best seller. Last week the company reported that 1988 profits had risen to $389 million, up 33% from the previous year, on sales of $5.3 billion. Now that Hoffmann...
...movie create a portrait of the shaman as showman -- demanding everything of himself and his sidemen so he can give everything onstage. The autobiography shows him honing his lyrics, teasing the word "motoring" into "motorvating" for Maybellene, finding inspiration for a verse of Brown Eyed Handsome Man from Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, fretting that while in prison he cannot gain access to a map that would help him chart Po' Boy's itinerary in Promised Land. And once he got it right, he always wanted it to be the same kind of right. In Taylor Hackford...
...century's opening decade, alas, Hoffmann and some Werkstatte colleagues were retreating into florid ornamental applique and comfortable Sacher-torte treacliness. Sharp geometry had only been a phase. At MOMA, a painted silver box (1910) is hardly recognizable as Hoffmann's work. In Viennese design, the purifying fin-desiecle rebellion had taken place later and then ended earlier than anywhere else in Europe...
...Sacher Torte, Earl Grey and Bud Yorkin--what a combination. How many times does one have the opportunity to munch rare German delicacies with the man responsible for bringing Archie Bunker and the Meathead to life and for giving the inimitable Florence countless opportunities to berrate the long-suffering George on The Jeffersons? All this from a man who has, as the tea makes eminently clear, impeccable table manners as well...