Word: big-shot
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...balance, though, Brokaw's parade is a little heavy on big-shot veterans like former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and Washington lawyer Lloyd Cutler. They tend to upstage the little-known people who are the subjects of Brokaw's strongest feelings. Still, who would not want to know that Art Buchwald was a bumbling Marine who failed to get a laugh when he dropped a bomb he was loading onto a Corsair? Or that 6-ft. 2-in. Julia Child served with the OSS in India after the WAVES rejected her because she was too tall...
...gives him a look. He's terrifically proud of his son the big-shot doctor--and of his four daughters, one of whom is a dentist and three of whom work for him, along with 60 other year-round employees. But there is always something in his eye that says this medicine thing is no life for a guy. Not a guy who could be in fireworks. This is art. This is science. This is family. "You know," he says in monotone seriousness, and Junior is rolling his eyes before the old man completes the sentence, "it actually takes longer...
...media these days are awash in managerial pornography: adulatory profiles of the big-shot CEO, allegedly revealing the secrets of his success. The bookstores offer shelves of advice about how to be a successful manager. A middle manager with dreams, like so many others, of becoming an upper-middle manager reads the articles and scans the books looking for inspiration...
...upper-middle-class 'burbs. Everyone drives I-got-mine-mobiles, lives in we-got-ours palazzos and connives ceaselessly to trade up for yet grander cars, real estate, spouses and even, Lord love a duck, tennis partners. Was it this way in 1974, when Will and Joel were big-shot seniors at Verona High School? They don't know...
...fact, a SYDNEY POITIER, and she's coming to a TV screen near you sometime next year. Sydney, 23, is Sidney's youngest daughter. (He has six, three of whom are actresses.) When he was cast in the Showtime movie Free of Eden as a former schoolteacher turned big-shot businessman, he asked the producers to look at his daughter's audition tape for a small part. "He called me at the record company where I was working as an assistant and told me they wanted me for the lead," says Poitier fille. "I said, 'What are you talking about...