Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband Harry, a disappointed lawyer-politician now resigned to tinkering with the Massachusetts Democratic Party machine. In come Jim's parents, a bewildered, gin-swilling mother and a gambling father off on a lifetime losing streak. The cast swells to include an Italian immigrant, a Jewish real estate tycoon and assorted Cogan relatives. Without warning, what might have been just another serving of tea and sympathy has become a documentary on U.S. civilization and its discontents...
...year long readers contributed an avalanche of Man of the Year suggestions. Richard Nixon received the most votes - both as hero and villain. Other choices ranged from Chicken Tycoon Frank Perdue and Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali to the beagle on our recent pet cover (on the grounds that the U.S. is going to the dogs). Within TIME, the process of selection began in early October when the managing editor invited other editors and bureau chiefs to submit nominations. A remarkable degree of consensus resulted: along with a number of New York-based editors, 18 bureau chiefs round the world mentioned...
...music has never been an easy profession for women. Recognition and glamour are common enough, but women looking for artistic control and financial leverage are usually thwarted. The Crystals and the Ronettes were high on the pop charts in the early '60s, but Phil Spector, multifaceted rock tycoon, wrote the lyrics, produced the records and pocketed most of the profits. In the '60s the men who sold pop music saw women as petulant screamers (Lesley Gore) or filigreed folkies (Judy Collins). Occasionally, women defied the image makers. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick escaped briefly from San Francisco psychedelia...
...West Coast tycoon has sold one of his two yachts. A socially prominent Manhattan couple has switched from vintage to nonvintage champagne, while some of their affluent friends provide only California jug wine-in Waterford decanters. A Los Angeles millionairess, Elsie Pollack, now features chili at her dinner parties; another wealthy hostess has replaced cut flowers with synthetic centerpieces. A Chicago industrialist has turned in his Cadillac for a relatively miserly Mercedes 220 with a diesel engine that gets up to 32 m.p.g...
...cause a certain amount of envy and resentment among those forced to do business with it. Among them you can number a smalltime diamond dealer (Charles Grodin), who is always being put down for violating its dress code or smoking in the waiting room, and a power-crazed tycoon (Trevor Howard) who wants to crack the vaults just for the hell of it. The third malcontent is an employee (James Mason) who is dying of cancer after 30 years of service, but just before the firm's unbending insurance program would cover his family...