Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of critics are annoyed at colleagues who supply blurbs in advance. "It fuzzes the line between the critic and the publicist," says New York Post reviewer Jami Bernard. "Crafting a sentence that would read well on an ad is not the kind of sentence that would look good in a review. It just brings shame on us all." WCBS-TV's Dennis Cunningham, one of the more restrained broadcast critics, blames the movie companies for "letting it be known that they want wretched excesses or nothing. There used to be people at the studios who wrote ad copy...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
...really think you're making a contribution?" shouted Fessenden Professor of Law Bernard Wolfman as CCR members continued reading from their list of names...
...year's suspension from the Cincinnati Reds just as Steinbrenner, the sport's most belligerent, beguiling owner, returns to the New York Yankees, 2 1/2 years after he was ousted as managing partner by Fay Vincent, then the commissioner. With Schott you got Schottzie 2, her drooling St. Bernard. But George needs no dog. He can growl at reporters, fetch overpriced free agents and bite the occasional manager. He can do everything but heel...
...rates. France has already chopped its 33% value-added tax on automobiles, which kept French drivers from speeding across the border to buy lower-taxed German models. Lufthansa, Iberia and Air France have slashed airfares, signaling the opening of Europe's first air price war. Consumers are benefiting. But Bernard Attali, chairman of the board of Air France, warned that the "suicidal" consequences of cut-throat competition will be massive layoffs and fewer flights to small cities...