Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflexive nature of Antonio's situation. He is at once the original perpetrator of all the confusion acted out on screen and at the same time a passive halfwit naively fearful of that confusion. Amnesiac Antonio has no desire to assume once again the position of capitalist tycoon Antonio. And this duality allows Saura a means of criticism from the inside...
Starting on page one and jumping to a six-column spread was a story laboriously pieced together on the financial connections between President Nixon's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, John Connally, and the late Texas oil tycoon Sid W. Richardson. The article reported that when Richardson died in 1959, Connally was named one of three executors of the $105 million estate. In 1963 he became Governor of Texas...
Tasmanian Opossum. In Manhattan, the waterbed display at Bloomingdale's department store for a while was a popular singles meeting place. Sears, Roebuck and Holiday Inns are eying the beds, and Lake Tahoe's Kings Castle Hotel has already installed them in its luxury suites. Playboy Tycoon Hugh Hefner has one-king-size, of course, and covered with Tasmanian opossum. The growing number of manufacturers and distributors, with such appropriate names as Aquarius Products, the Water Works, Innerspace Environments, Joyapeutic Aqua Beds and the Wet Dream, can hardly meet the demand. They have sold more than...
Such mainstays of the vernacular as tycoon, kudos, pundit and socialite all gained currency from their use in TIME. Our movie reviewers borrowed cinema from the French-and played numerous variations on the theme with cinemactor, cinemactress, cinemoppet, cinemogul. The word newsmagazine was a TIME creation...
...Edward H. Harte, 47, is a rich, urbane Texan who got "my big awakening" majoring in philosophy at Dartmouth. Today he is co-owner of the $27 million Harte-Hanks newspaper chain, publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (circ. 107,000) and the most liberal press tycoon in Texas. A key cause of that superlative is his son Chris, 22, a political science major at Stanford, who has taught Harte to "admire the gutsiness of this generation...