Word: zeitgeist
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...affairs. He directed its unflinching coverage of Watergate and wrote an editorial, the first in TIME's history, that called for Richard Nixon's resignation. He was deeply inquisitive about the tumultuous changes of his time--social, economic, political and cultural--and supremely alert to the nuances of the zeitgeist. To name one instance of his intuition: it was Henry who ordered up TIME's famous 1966 cover asking the question "Is God Dead?" (For the record, the answer...
Freston's idea is to ride the Zeitgeist, keep his stable of semi-indie divisions productive and use the allure of his hip brands to attract fresh, young (and, pssst, cheap) talent. "I want us to be a place where you build relationships with up-and-coming people," he says, "give them a comfortable home so they can be in your solar system." And then, the dream goes, Paramount can roll out the occasional megamovie, like this summer's War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise (who also has a production deal with Paramount...
...There’s a certain iconographic status that being a Man or Woman of the Year gives you. It’s a very specific zeitgeist,” she told FM. “I think anybody will look back and say, ‘That was a really big time in my life.’ The Hasty Pudding is just a really wonderful career marker...
...jazz beat, and when opera divas graced the cover of TIME. (No rock performers were cover boys until the Beatles in 1967.) Now neither TIME nor Newsweek has a classical music critic, because neither magazine believes it has a need for one. They're just flying with the Zeitgeist...
...predicting the next blockbuster. "Sometimes you can make all of the right decisions, and the movie gods will shine on you. Other times they don't," she says. "Luck is needed in nearly every business, but even more so in this one, where you have to catch the zeitgeist and the zeitgeist moves so quickly...