Word: wagman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in the $1,269 machine was so feverish that sales of competing models slumped months before the so-called Peanut arrived at retail stores. Many dealers felt they would be selling PCjrs as fast as IBM could turn them out. "The market is voting with dollars," said David Wagman of Softsel, the country's largest independent software distributor. "And it's saying, 'IBM will be our standard...
...drawback. The company deliberately made the computer's specifications widely available so that the machine could become the industry standard. That tactic has worked so well that PC users are now able to choose from a vast array of programs that run on the machines. Says David Wagman, chairman of Softsel, a Los Angeles software distributor: "The change has been overwhelming. Eighteen months ago, 85% of the software we saw was for Apple and 5% for IBM. Now 29% is for IBM and 26% for Apple...
...tobacco was of poor quality and at best crudely refined, and because foreign smokers too were lighting up less frequently, the U.S. companies found their cigarettes couldn't compete in the cutthroat European and Japanese markets. Anywhere in the developed world, the problems were the same. As Robert Wagman of the North American Newspaper Alliance explained. "The tobacco companies . . . need consumers who will consume high tar tobacco in blissful ignorance of the danger it poses to their health...
...then a leg appears. The leg, it turns out, is undoubtedly attached to the beggar's very own fantastically attired fairy godmother. Standing with one foot in the air, the four-armed fairy god-mother (Nela Wagman), bells, frizzy hair, Safron dress and all, keeps the audience in hysterics by sustaining her bizarre accent and ridiculous movements during her entire time on stage. The fairy godmother grants the beggar's wish, disappears, and reappears a few minutes later. This time she comes all the way down the ladder, on to the stage and assumes a yoga position on the table...
...full-fledged farce "Fit to be Tried." The set of a detailed French drawing room incorporates the fireplace and closets already in the room. The four actors from the other two plays reappear as the major characters in the comedy of misidentifications, adultery, and murder. As Pepita Passionelle, Wagman expressively plays the emotionally fluctuating role of a neurotic actress. In one scene, she breaks into an uncontrollable hysteria then suddenly reverts to her previous composure. Samuels as Camembert, La Passionelle's husband, portrays the scheming, jealous husband with the proverbial evil, insane glimmer in his eye. Camembert is madly jealous...