Word: tycooning
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...American tycoon tries to make an investment in Japan but runs into an intricate web of cozy corporate ties that shuts out foreigners. At the stockholders' meeting of the company in which he has become the largest single owner, the proceedings are interrupted by a handful of racketeers, who hurl derisive remarks at the company president. In a vote, none of the more than 200 shareholders at the meeting support the outsider's nomination of board members...
WORLD: A fallen Greek tycoon says Prime Minister Papandreou helped him loot the nation's coffers of millions...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
Trump played a cameo appearance as himself in the TV version of Krantz's epic in 1987, and now he is heading for greater things, playing a tycoon named "Mr. Spectacular" in a film by John and Bo Derek, Ghosts Can't Do It. Partly filmed in the Trump Tower, of course, it is due out in October. And Ted Turner is producing a $3 million Donald Trump Story, to be broadcast later this year. "It's part of the game I have to play," Trump likes to say. "It's all a game, really...
...Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's harrowing vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better educated than average about the literature of the stage and eager to embrace demanding and sophisticated work...