Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...betting against Murdoch's global vision because the media magnate controls such an effective power base. News Corp. earned $560 million on $3.5 billion in revenues in 1987. Yet Murdoch can run the huge corporation like a family firm because he and his relatives own half its shares. And that is not going to change anytime soon. News Corp. has issued very few new shares since 1954. Besides, with no more than 40 corporate staffers, News Corp. is so lean that Murdoch can strike his targets quickly. He and Annenberg first talked about a deal over lunch at the Triangle...
First, one detects an odd odor, something like the scent of garlic. Then the burning sets in, blurring vision as the eyes begin to smart and itch. Uncontrollable bouts of sneezing and coughing follow, often attended by nausea and vomiting. As the hours crawl by, the inflammation slowly spreads. When it reaches the respiratory tract, swelling the internal lining, the breath shortens and the chest tightens. The skin darkens to a sickly purplish color, the armpits and other cavities turning almost black. Excruciating blisters appear on the neck, chest and thighs, causing patches of skin to fall off. Large lesions...
Fashion-conscious Republicans know that it's better to look good than to feel good. So the folks at Clairol sponsored a "Freshen Up Lounge" where guests could see how they look in another hair color via color vision computer...
...bygone centuries, an unorthodox vision like Martin Scorsese's might have prompted heresy trials and burnings at the stake. Perhaps even a quick crusade mounted by ragtag armies. In the summer of 1988, the preferred methods of resistance are picket lines, economic boycotts and angry appearances on talk shows. If the furor surrounding Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ proves one thing, it is that in any era, seismic emotions are involved when people probe the nature of the man who is worshiped as God by well over a billion souls...
...stress on Jewish studies among modern New Testament scholars has produced a striking vision of Jesus as a rabbinical genius whose teachings were very much in keeping with the liberal Jewish scholarship of his day. "He represented a humanistic trend in Judaism that was then developing out of the liberal wing of the School of Hillel," argues Israeli Historian David Flusser of the Jerusalem School for the Study of the Synoptic Gospels, a group of 15 Jewish and Christian scholars. What Jesus sought, says Flusser, was a Judaism purified of resentments and hatred. "He wanted a feeling of love...