Word: stunner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound and light shows go, it was a stunner. This time the ageless Pyramids of Giza were bathed in Sinatra as well as lumière. Ol' Blue Eyes, accompanied by Wife Barbara, appeared in Cairo for the first time as part of a three-day bash to raise funds for Wafa Wal Amal, the rehabilitation center for the handicapped that is First Lady Jehan Sadat's favorite charity. Jehan and Barbara struck it off famously, but Sinatra kept mostly to himself until showtime. By then the sand near the Pyramids had been covered with 300 carpets...
...production is a stunner. Battles are stylized and understated; only Coriolanus' sword arm is crimsoned with gore...
Superlatives are never exactly in short supply in the advertising business, but the news that came out of the world's largest ad firm last week really was a stunner. Announcing the biggest merger in Madison Avenue history, the Interpublic Group of Companies, the Manhattan-based agency holding company that is the industry's General Motors (1978 billings: $1.9 billion), announced that it was acquiring SSC & B, the U.S.'s eighth largest agency (billings: $750 million), for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of SSC & B (formerly Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles) would boost Interpublic's combined billings to more than...
...Holmes is so busy shooting up cocaine that it is questionable whether he could lift a book. It is also about an opium den so suggestive of for bidden and abandoned pleasures that it might serve as ad copy for Yves Saint Laurent's new perfume. One visual stunner provided by John Wulp is a fog-shrouded encounter between a steam launch and a schooner on the Thames...
Power struggles are nothing new at Ford Motor Co., but the one that climaxed last week was a stunner. After weeks of futile maneuvering to save his job, Lee lacocca, 53, the harddriving, cigar-chomping president of the world's fourth largest manufacturing company, found himself quite bluntly sacked by his equally tough-minded boss, Chairman Henry Ford II. It was the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes quarreling between two of the auto industry's most respected-and often feared-executives. The end came for lacocca following a day of stormy meetings of the ten-member...