Word: showman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-righteous of him to invoke Mayor Vellucci's help when he couldn't convince committee of his peers to stop the p-3 facility." (The p-3 facility is the laboratory, now under construction for the DNA research.) He also criticized Wald for being too much of a showman, often gauging his actions for the benefit of his audience...
Whatever the motives of the fallen President and the enterprising TV showman, the historical perspective is extraordinary. For the first time, Nixon is facing a lone inquisitor who is under no restrictions on what he can ask about those presidential years. A public that may have grown quite weary of Richard Nixon can hardly deny its fearful fascination with, and continuing curiosity about, the man who became and still remains America's antihero...
Polaroid Founder-Chairman Edwin Land is a showman who likes to use his corporation's annual meetings to stage splashy demonstrations of the company's latest instant-photography miracles. Last week he had a stunning new one to display: instant movies, which Polaroid is preparing to market on a limited basis in the fall after 30 years of experimenting. So Land put on a show that lived up to his own dry comment: "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." Each of the 3,800 shareholders present in Needham, Mass., got a chance to shoot films...
...company that wants something more, the Heli-Home may indeed outclass the private jet as a practical, all-purpose, tax-deductible vehicle that is not just a toy. Or, for $10.000 a week, plus pilot's salary, plus gas (75 gal. per hour), the party thrower or corporate showman can rent an H-H and be up and away...
BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS. Robert Altman's shaggy dog meditation on celebrity and how it befuddles its victims. The ending is flawed, but Paul Newman (as the title showman) and a fine supporting cast make the journey to it highly rewarding...