Word: tycooning
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...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...
...Audrey Hepburn's American film debut in Roman Holiday, playing a cloistered princess on a brief romantic escapade? Director Peter Bogdanovich could not. With Hepburn, 51, in mind for the leading role, he wrote and directed They All Laughed, a film involving the sheltered wife of a European tycoon, who goes to New York City and has, yes, a brief romantic escapade. There were, of course, a number of differences the second time around. But Manhattan was a pleasant change, says Hepburn, who lives in Switzerland and Rome. "New Yorkers are very warm; they come right up and talk...
...honorary degree. Lo and behold, he did. Photographers naturally focused on the new doctor of humane letters in his gold robe and white hood. "You've never had this many pictures taken in your life, have you?" joshed President Steven Muller. "Not willingly," grumbled the last tycoon. "But now I think I kinda like...
...simp of propriety, and to his dismay learns that his mettlesome daughter Barbara (Laurie Kennedy) has become a devoted minion of the Salvation Army. Her adoring shadow is Adolphus Cusins (Nicolas Surovy), an elitist teacher of Greek. When Undershaft taunts him as "Euripides" and Cusins flings back "Machiavelli," the tycoon is rather taken with the scholar...
...booty, against the pleas of artists and record companies alike. He has been mythologized, parodied (in Brian De Palma's film Phantom of the Paradise, as the satanic superproducer) and eulogized by musicians, rock critics and Tom Wolfe (in one of his best pieces of razzmatazz, The First Tycoon of Teen). The vaulting arrangements and majestic delirium of songs such as Be My Baby and He's a Rebel and River Deep-Mountain High and You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling have been endlessly imitated. They have never been equaled, except by Spector himself. Outside attempts...