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...women who fear that their friends would desert them if only they knew. In Harvey's book, Virgil, 67, a self-made millionaire in Beverly Hills, remembers his humble beginnings when he walks into his exclusive club and wonders when the others will realize that he does not belong there...
Many impostors develop these fears after early successes. When Eleanor, a nuclear engineer cited by Clance, became one of the first women to obtain a top position in her field, she refused to accept her accomplishments. "I'm not very bright at all," she says. "I don't really belong here...
...many staffers, the firings underscored their fear that the loyalties of Sauter, 50, and Joyce, 52, no longer belong to the news division but to Black Rock, the nickname for CBS Inc.'s Manhattan headquarters. According to their critics, the two men have their feet firmly on the corporate ladder and are eager to advance upward. Though both spent much of their careers as journalists (Sauter worked as a newspaperman for nine years, while Joyce began as a radio reporter), they made their reputations in management positions. Sauter served as the network's chief censor and head of the sports...
...these Yankee fans come. There are fights, there's tension. But there's no way a Yankee fan would want to watch this. Everyone in the park is a Sox fan." I mused to that, no matter how big this Red Sox thing got, the team still did belong to us-the folks here in Fenway and our grandmothers watching on NESN in Bootbay Harbor, Keene, Cheshire, Storrs, Woonsocket, Chelmsford and everywhere else...
...writing of the book, strains for a balance that Bach finally cannot strike. He berates Cimino for rampant egomania and describes a conflict of interest regarding the director's choice of a location. Land that United Artists had cleared and improved with an irrigation system turned out to belong to the filmmaker. But Bach later states emphatically that Cimino's sole ambition was "to create ... a work of lasting...