Word: cartwright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt by Texan T. Boone Pickens. A three-month siege by corporate raiders had ended, and worries for the future were replaced by good feelings. "Hallelujah!" declared Joe Seward, general manager of Martin's department stores. "This town is three feet off the ground." Chamber of Commerce Director Sam Cartwright was ecstatic: "Now that Phillips is saved, Bartlesville is saved, and the tumbleweeds won't take over after...
...word serious, as in "serious work" or "serious writer," begins to be used more and more, with less and less attachment to objective judgment. Such a mood, curable by pouting, is an occupational hazard, and is not the kind of thing that attracts outsiders to the seminars. As Phyllis Cartwright, director of Fort Lauderdale's Main Library, put it, "People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch...
...almost equal extent, their wives, a collection of women who offer moral support to one another and provide some the film's most effective scenes. Annie Glenn (Mary Jo Deschanel) stutters, a condition which makes her reluctant to meet with then-Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. Betty Grissom (Veronica Cartwright) succinctly expresses her disappointment, when her husband's first mission ends imperfectly. "Does this mean no Jackie?" she asks despondently, alluding to Louise Shepard's (Kathy Basker) visit with the First Lady. And Trudy Cooper (Pamela Reed) accepts her husband's immaturity and possible indiscretions with an eloquent passivity that questions...
...expensive alternative to touring as a method of promoting a new band. "Spend $20,000 on a video, aired once on MTV, and seven million people will see it. On a tour, that pays for ten gigs, with maybe 100 people at each one" calculates A & M Records' Hernando Cartwright Epic's Wingate added "since a video is far more effective, almost every artist would rather have a video...
...writing costs money. "We can't do anything with their engineering if they can't explain it to us," says an Amoco supervisor in Wyoming. "I don't have time to fiddle around with their ideas unless they've worked them into shape." As Gene Cartwright, a manager at Standard Oil of Indiana, puts it, "Companies are built around reports." Robert L. Craig, an official of the American Society for Training and Development, goes further. Poor writing, he insists, is a significant "factor in the whole drop in the growth of American productivity...