Word: saxonism
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...firm. In some cities, a store owner who writes and acts out his own 30-second spot can produce it at a local TV studio for $100 to $300, in contrast to the $2,000 to $4,000 charged by a professional agency. Alan Saks, owner of Chicago-based Saxon Paint & Home Care Centers, says that were it not for his self-made ads, he could not compete with Goliaths like Sears. Says Saks, 58: "It's a competitive business. The independent has to do what...
...success and talent, Spielberg's weaknesses are prominently displayed in this foray beyond the safe climes of thrill-a-minute B-movie homages and suburban kiddie flicks. He is a craftsman, not an auteur, and one hopes his artistic imperialism will not cause him to stomp all over Anglo-Saxon culture's other golems...
...battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing a community-minded foundation...
...promising not to increase his holdings for six months. It is not the first time Icahn has been foiled. He made an unsuccessful pass at Phillips Petroleum two months ago, and in the past has been fended off in raids on such companies as Marshall Field, Dan River and Saxon Industries. But in each of those ventures, Icahn walked away with a tidy profit...
...vehicle is David Treadup, born in upstate New York of staunch Anglo Saxon stock. Everything about Hersey's protagonist is perfect for the story he wants to tell. We follow Treadup's youth in the late 19th century, his early interest in science, his athleticism, and his growth to study, 6-ft., 4-in., 230-lb. menhood. Hersey clearly intends these introductory chapters to create a dominant image in the reader's mind of the hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) impulses in American ideology which prompted the missionary wave almost a century...