Word: genius
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...keep alive their shrinking market, tobacco companies have shown marketing genius by creating more than 300 brands that variously boast of being longer, slimmer, cheaper, flavored, microfiltered, pastel colored or even striped. A new R.J. Reynolds brand called Uptown looks typically glitzy with its black- and-gold box and promise of a tasty menthol blend. But the cigarette has provoked a response its maker never anticipated: passionate protest. Last week the tobacco company, which intended to begin test-marketing the cigarette next month in Philadelphia, canceled those plans after community groups and health organizations vehemently criticized the product. The reason...
...with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since. He acted with Grace Kelly in The Swan in 1955. A decade later he was lodged at Warner Bros. Records as a cultural curiosity and house genius, collaborating with such hothouse talents as Ry Cooder and Lowell George. In 1968 he turned out his first solo album, Song Cycle, a heavily layered and intricately rhymed portrait of Los Angeles that is like Thomas Pynchon on vinyl...
...adult-education seminar and a student-intern program, and, using Yiddish-speaking actors in Israel, is taping entire novels. This profusion delights Lansky, whose accomplishments were recognized last July by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago, which conferred on him one of its so-called genius fellowships. The $225,000 award will provide a stipend for five years; it may be a divine repayment with interest for the first four years of the center's life, when he drew no salary. The center supports itself today from book sales, donations and dues paid by some...
Both became drunk with vanity. Ceausescu styled himself the "Genius of the Carpathians," put his face on posters all over Rumania and had 30 volumes of his speeches published. One of Noriega's last political acts was to have himself named Maximum Leader. Both pursued quirky impulses. Ceausescu made his wife Elena his deputy, and she not only draped herself in furs and jewelry but also used the police to spy on her grown daughter's love life. According to U.S. Army investigators, Noriega practiced Santeria, a mystic religion, and wore red underwear to fend off the evil...
...personality. He tolerated neither dissent among citizens nor a difference of opinion inside the party. He appointed his wife to the Politburo, his sons to high party and government rank and more than 30 other relatives to official positions. He basked in such honorifics as the Genius of the Carpathians and the Danube of Thought while treating the Rumanian people with extraordinary cruelty...