Word: impresario
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pondering a White House bid, ABC News's Mark Halperin and the Washington Post's John Harris have some advice. In their book The Way to Win, they offer tales from past campaigns and--with the help of former President Bill Clinton and G.O.P. impresario Karl Rove, who were interviewed for the book--tips for those who have their eyes on the Oval Office. Here's a sampler...
...Scott and cofounder Pete King - a decent piano, a late bar and a warm welcome for all - have, until its recent $4 million makeover and relaunch, been little tinkered with. After Scott's death in 1996, King persevered for eight years but finally sold the club to British theater impresario Sally Greene. "I got a fantastic club that has been run by two amazing men for the last 45 years," says Greene, who knows nostalgia is a tricky tune to play right. "It's exactly the way it was before," she reassures, "only polished up." Old regulars who've come...
What do you do when you wake up one morning convinced that the intangible hipness on which you based your enormous professional success no longer exists? If you're hotel impresario Ian Schrager, you replace the proverbial velvet rope with a comfy velvet cushion...
...alleged mishandling of the crisis. "We realized no one was going to descend from the heavens to solve our problems, and we were going to have to do it ourselves." The same is true of Bombay's economy. "On the face of it, the city's screwed," says wine impresario Samant. "Look at the traffic, the bureaucracy, the sewage, so much poverty next to so much money. You'd think the place would erupt." Yet look at how nimbly the city negotiates those obstacles, he says. "There's no better place to be in business right...
DIED. Phil Walden, 66, brash impresario and co-founder of Capricorn Records, based in Macon, Ga., a label known during its 1970s heyday as the citadel of Southern rock; of cancer; in Atlanta. Intent on providing a haven for an array of blues, country and pop artists, the former manager for Otis Redding launched the Allman Brothers Band and popularized such acts as the Dixie Dregs, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band...