Word: binging
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...wouldn't question Father." And a child was hardly likely to go to a virginal nun to report sexual activity. Can you imagine one of the boys from The Bells of St. Mary's going to Sister Ingrid Bergman and confiding that he'd been fondled by Father Bing Crosby...
Author of What Would Machiavelli Do? and a columnist for FORTUNE magazine, Bing has written a wry 21st century courtier's manual that irreverently harnesses the wisdom of the ancient Zen masters. The elephants in this clever business handbook are the outsize ceos and captains of industry who take up all the air and space in every room they enter. Bing offers advice on the care and feeding of such corporate pachyderms, but, more important, he tells you how not to get trampled. Drain yourself of all hope, he says. Don't expect anything--especially kindness. And never, ever, criticize...
...honors in 1964 at the Venice Film Festival for Michelangelo Antonioni's first color production, Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert); in Rome. BORN. To ELIZABETH HURLEY, 36, actress and cleavage-proud model, a son, Damian Charles; in London. Hurley claims the father is former boyfriend and multimillionaire producer Stephen Bing. EXTRADITION SOUGHT. Of CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ, former President of Venezuela, and his wife Cecilia Matos after the national prosecutor's office reinstituted charges that they mishandled funds prior to being forced from office in 1993; in Caracas. The couple now divide their time between the Dominican Republic...
...Madison Square Garden. It's hard to say what you enjoy most. In some respects I enjoy Kaleidoscape much more because it gave me an opportunity to show an American audience another side of me that they never could have seen because in the Ringling show it always bing, bing, bing, bing, be funny, be fast, and make them scream and laugh, and Ringling gives you that. When you have 16,000 people screaming and laughing while you perform, oh my god, it's an unbelievable feeling. But I also have a one man show that I take around...
...Welch, he's not talking. An assistant at his Shelton, Conn., office called the situation a personal matter, and his many fans probably agree. The state of his marriage is unknown. Stanley Bing, a columnist for FORTUNE and author of the new book Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up, observes of Welch's behavior that top executives' "sense of self is wrapped up so tightly with status that when their circumstances change, they can mutate into something unrecognizable to their closest friends--or interviewers." Or perhaps the key is that, as the authors of the article...