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<text id=90TT0581>
<title>
Mar. 05, 1990: Business Notes:Personalities
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 45
Business Notes
PERSONALITIES
Give It to Us Straight, Frank
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<body>
<p> In the 1960s he was pictured on a top-selling poster sitting
on a toilet. In the '70s he penned the foul-mouthed rock
classic Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Small wonder, then, that the
iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has had a hard time getting
mainstream airplay. But the times they are a-changin', and
Financial News Network is betting the cult hero is ready for
prime time. This week Zappa debuts as guest host on FNN: Focus,
an interview show. As his opening topic, Zappa will explore
opportunities for U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union. The
49-year-old renegade may have some insight to share. Last year
he formed a consulting firm to set up joint ventures in the
U.S.S.R. Says Zappa: "It's an off-the-wall situation over there.
How can you ignore 280 million consumers?"
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