Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with John Ehrlichman, the Nixon aide, and the Urban League's federal contracts soared. Before the '70s had ended, he was enjoying a chauffeured Mercury, a Fifth Avenue apartment, an annual getaway to Martha's Vineyard, seats on four corporate boards and a reputation among some blacks as a "sellout." He didn't see it that way. "Black power will remain just a shout and a cry, unless it is channeled into constructive efforts to...influence the established institutions of American politics," he said...
...blockbusters do not necessarily squeeze out small productions--which appeal to different audiences and can get some of the spillover from sellout shows. "I don't think we're stomping out competition," says Peter Schneider, head of Disney's theatrical division. "Good product will out." What is indisputable is that Disney and Livent have brought good--maybe great--product to Broadway even as they have helped introduce the fusty old business to the modern world. And for that, the only proper response from a theatergoer is "Bravo...
...cover boy for the business magazines. Yet, he insists in his usual point-blank locution, "I haven't changed." He is a protective father of two daughters (he has asked us not to reveal their names or occupations), a spirited teacher (his Stanford business-school course is an annual sellout) and, almost incidentally, is worth more than $300 million. His 5-ft. 9-in. frame--honed by hourlong morning workouts, coiled by nervous energy--seems as tightly wired as one of his microprocessors...
Mendel, the sellout second film of the festival, takes place nearly 50 years and a continent away from Arik Sharon. The German Jews Aron and Bela Trotzig move with their children David and Mendel to Norway from Germany in 1954 in an effort to escape the lingering horror of the Holocaust. Mendel, born after the war ended and temporarily shielded from knowledge of the Holocaust by his parents, confronts a world where much remains incomprehensible and the past is a blank. His main concern becomes his struggle to decipher the story he has only half-heard in whispers his whole...
...opening track, the straight-ahead-rocker "Sellout", Hatfield displays more confidence than on her entire previous album, 1995's curiously sedated Only Everything. On that release, attempts to make her music harder often just made it sludgy. Here, the raw pop energy of her older releases is elegantly mixed with urgent, driving power chords and uncharacteristically noisy guitar solos. The song's lyrics provide an ironic commentary on the undernourished sound and sales of Only Everything. "It's not a sellout if nobody buys it/I can't be blamed if nobody likes...