Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brawny, with silver hair and a salty tongue. Editorial Board Chairman Robert Giroux, 73, is more reserved, an inside man whose contributions to the list include T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell and Bernard Malamud. The outspoken Straus bluntly rejects the nostalgic notion that publishing was once a gentlemen's business. "They were poor businessmen," he says of many of the resonant names of the profession, "poor marketers out to massage their own egos generation after generation...
...Gentlemen...
...right, gentlemen, we all agree there is nothing wrong with the Broadway musical that a few hits wouldn't cure. But what we need is some new ideas...
...women smile alluringly. But upon landing at an eerily empty Tan Son Nhut airport, there is no escaping the stark reminders of conflicts past: the olive-drab Chinook helicopters, C-130s and C-47s lie cheek by cowl off the tarmac. This is no Club Med. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, a recent and tentative entrant in the lucrative global sweepstakes known as the tourist industry...
...read the titles: "Shoot to Kill," and "Good Morning, Vietnam." Then I went to the hospitality suite down the hall and dug into the free and well-stocked bar. Several hours more than several cost-free beverages later, I found myself sitting in a bar wondering why the five gentlemen to my left had stripped naked and were dancing around, waving to the other patrons in the bar and passers-by who were gawking through the open door of the saloon...