Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interviewer. In this exhaustive grilling of showfolk past, Film Historian John Kobal has chosen his subjects artfully, and he has edited ruthlessly. Conversations with Bette Davis, whose dramatic biography has been overexposed, are omitted. June Duprez (The Thief of Bagdad) is included precisely be cause of her failure to ascend in Holly wood. With the British actress's help, and some probing questions, Kobal traces "what happened to her career after the film premiered in America and she became the outsider at her own party...
...Klein put it best when he stated, "Bill Clinton was a good President. Hillary Clinton is a good Senator. But enough already." Am I the only one who feels that Hillary is overly ambitious? Does she want to ascend to the highest rung of the political ladder just for the sake of it? If she runs for President, she will further polarize Democrats and Republicans. Who needs a more divided country? Hillary is a good politician and a hard worker who delivers on her promises. I respect her, but I don't want her in the Oval Office. We need...
...good reason to gush. The Queen, 78, has probably averted a crisis of succession. Church leaders were not thrilled with the possibility that Charles might ascend to the throne and assume the title Defender of the Faith while living in sin with his lady. Now Charles gets to rule Britain with the frumpy consort of his dreams...
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the chief architect of Pope John Paul II's traditionalist moral policy, has long been a bugaboo for liberal Catholics. But they had stopped worrying that the German might one day ascend to St. Peter's throne. His hard-line views and blunt approach had earned him the epithet of panzerkardinal and too many enemies. Well, their worrying may now resume. Sources in Rome tell TIME that Ratzinger has re-emerged as the top papal candidate within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of S??o Paolo...
...you’re about to ascend to The Head of All Content, your saliva is connected by four degrees of separation to a disgruntled outgoing editorial executive who was once considered a contender for high places...