Word: tycooning
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...another, more ephemeral sort of American miracle: he has become an industrial folk hero in a supposedly postindustrial age and, more improbably still, a corporate capitalist with populist appeal, an eminence terrible admired by working class and ruling class alike. Not since William Randolph Hearst has there been a tycoon who has occupied the national imagination as vividly as Iacocca...
...super-star mogul of Paramount Pictures--let's give him the name Barry Diller--to turn things around. But meanwhile the losses keep on mounting: $85 million in the last fiscal year, $12.4 million in the last quarter for which there are figures. So what does this desperate tycoon do? He sells half the shop to an Australian press baron, whose very name, Rupert Murdoch, causes grown men to shiver with fear and occasionally loathing. The studio is saved...
...evokes a child's view of events. But in explaining the parents' political fervor and in analyzing their times, Davita's Harp too often limits itself to predictable externalities. Potok relies heavily on the imagination of other artists: the explanation for Davita's father's alienation from his timber- tycoon forebears, for example, is that he witnessed a real-life scene of antiunion violence that is vividly evoked in John Dos Passos' 1919, and Davita comes to understand him by reading the book. He also introduces a surrogate uncle to Davita, a refugee writer whose fables are full of images...
...best of the new business games are three fast-paced simulation programs that re-create the stock, real estate and commodities markets: Blue Chip Software's Millionaire, Baron and Tycoon. For $60 each, these startlingly realistic games let players dip their feet into the volatile market for stock options or pork-belly futures--without having to take a bath...
Well, Berrenger's may yet deliver the merchandise. The slickly produced show puts back an important element that was missing from Paper Dolls: a strong family unit. The Bloomingdale's-like department store of the title is run by an aging tycoon (Sam Wanamaker) whose children and their spouses vie for power and assorted sex partners. "Positively Byzantine," remarks one family member, after Papa Berrenger has announced plans to retire. "It's going to be fun watching this family fight their way through this." Not as much fun, unfortunately, as it would be if the actors and plot twists...