Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset Strip billboards, which are for the music indus try what heraldry was to Camelot. He also brainstorms with the talent, helping art ists choose material. Singer Yvonne Elliman calls him "the man with the golden ears -the best in the business at picking singles." Coury says, "I don't tell big artists...
Promo men work record stores too, but it is radio that gets their best shot. Meanwhile, back in the three-story Sunset Strip offices of RSO, Coury is on the phone, eagerly reading the new charts ?delivered to his office before they go to press?and placing calls to the various trades about the new positions of RSO products. If, as RSO National Sales Manager Mitch Huffman says, "the charts are Coury's bible," then the boss is certainly not averse to applying for a revised standard version. He'll bluster, cajole, even strongarm an editor for a more...
...money back into the program. Help is on the way. "The long-range profit for this show is down the road, when it's syndicated and sold to the stations," says Henson. "It's a couple of years away." Lord Grade adds with satisfaction that the take from this "strip syndication"?the sale of a show for the same time slot several days a week?will be split equally between HA! and his ACC group and will mean "millions of dollars." Until then HA! is supported handsomely by fat merchandising contracts with such outfits as Fisher-Price Toys...
...appear to be a stronger bet. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced last week that the slow-moving talks would resume at an unspecified date. But the issue of linkage-that is, relating Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula to political changes for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-remains a major stumbling block...
Most Gaza Palestinians are unenthusiastic about the Camp David accords. They are especially bitter about Jerusalem's insistence upon keeping Israeli armed forces in the West Bank and Gaza permanently, and Israeli citizens' having a right to settle in the strip. There is also a generation gap among the Gazans while the elders still pine for their old homes in Ashkelon or elsewhere in Israel proper, the young aspire to the goals of an independent Palestinian state...