Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over France are rushing to finish up the dinner dishes. It is almost time for Ambition, a popular new program starring Financial Wizard Bernard Tapie, 44. Sporting a dark blue suit and his trademark red tie, the lively Parisian preaches hard work and street smarts as the roots of success. "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship," he counsels his enthusiastic audience. "Dare to think...
...enthusiastic push, he asks, "Why are we, who have invented everything from fashion to gastronomy, not the most powerful economic force in the world?" In addition to emceeing a television show, Tapie has peddled his views in a best-selling autobiography titled Winning and a popular record called Success in Life. Following the example of his hero, Lee Iacocca, Tapie appears in openly nationalistic television commercials for his own products...
Tapie enjoys the fruits of his success. He whizzes around France in a dark blue Mercedes or his personal twin-engine Falcon jet, and lives in Paris in a stylish Avenue Foch apartment with his wife and three children. Between takeovers, he cheers for the soccer team he owns, the popular Olympique of Marseilles. His plans for next fall include sponsoring an entrepreneurship camp for unemployed youth. "The rewards of business are not simply money," grins this cheerleader of capitalism. "It is the pleasure, the game, liberty, mobility, the possibility of creating. I believe in dreams, risk and laughter...
...community, commensurate with her strength." The Prime Minister's landslide, said the London Times, was a "sign that Japan is becoming both more outgoing and more accessible." Nakasone, commented the conservative West German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "can be sure that the victory of his party and his personal success will be welcomed in the West...
...terror with the big raucous talent has earned his stardom, and he is savoring it. "You can't do the 'poor guy' number with Danny," says his friend, Writer-Director James L. Brooks. "Instead of getting mad at the hurt he's experienced -- which takes the fun out of success when it comes -- Danny decided instead that it's a gas things have worked out so well." It was Brooks who helped cast DeVito as Louie DePalma, the pernicious troll of the Sunshine Cab Co. on TV's Taxi (1978-83). Expectorating slurs, dancing a jig at the bad luck...