Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated mission is messianic. He is out to reach a new and bigger audience-the neophytes who may not necessarily understand or appreciate ballet but have a thirst for it anyway. In this he has succeeded. Opting for stadiums and arenas rather than conventional ballet halls, he has become probably the most commercially successful choreographer alive. When his latest full-length ballet, Nijinsky, Clown of God, came to New York for a 19-performance run that will end this weekend, it seemed only appropriate that the locale should be the 4,000-seat Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden...
...anomalies of this campaign that Richard Nixon, with an almost Lyndonesque thirst for "consensus," seems to have slighted those other battles. According to every indicator, the President now stands on the threshold of a personal triumph. The "born loser" of the early 1960s seems within reach of an overwhelming political victory: even millions of Democrats to whom he was once a partisan pariah will be pulling Republican levers. But Nixon, the loyal party man who owed so much to Republican Party workers down the line, now seems unwilling to share that popularity with his colleagues. Largely as a result...
...Great Thirst. By 1969, Mize had grown tired of Zapata, figuring that it had reached a point at which profits could not be raised fast. His goal is to double after-tax profits each year, which he has often managed to do. For a more promising base of operations, he chose land-rich Southdown, a company that Zapata controlled. In a complicated series of transactions, Mize made Southdown an entirely separate company, severing all its ties with Zapata. He also resigned from Zapata and named himself chairman of Southdown. Again Mize went back to making acquisitions, mostly in exchange...
...signed an agreement to exchange 1,050 acres of land for California's San Martin winery. Mize believes that in the next five or ten years, demand for California wines will increase rapidly because the French will be unable to produce enough to satisfy America's growing thirst for good but moderately priced wine. The domestic market will soon be big enough to support another major national brand, he says, and a hustling entrepreneur could become a kingpin in American wines. That is exactly what Doyle Mize would like...
...last shot we have of Junior's trip in this opening-credits sequence shows him waking up some ways from the road, by a rocky crag and a river where his horse can catch its thirst; the rider touches his wound, but moves right on, right to the outskirts of Prescott, to his father's land...