Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already in jail, having been imprisoned without trial since last December under an emergency decree issued at the time of Red China's invasion of India's Himalayan border. Shastri may again arrange for an appointed governor to rule Kerala. If he does, Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Nam-boodiripad, has said he will set off statewide demonstrations against the government...
Arms Twisted. It might have been expected that a tough boss would be toughly sacked. But the real show-biz touch was to leave everything else to gossip and speculation. The first reaction was to invoke the adage that he who lives by the ratings can die by the ratings. A year ago, CBS's Nielsen rating lead was 22.5 to NBC's 18.8 and ABC's 17.6. But all this season the three networks have been in a near dead heat. Had Aubrey lost his magic? He had once made a purseful of profits from sows...
Died. Aubrey Williams, 74, first and only boss of F.D.R.'s National Youth Administration, a gaunt, Alabama-born liberal who helped organize the NYA in 1933 to help Depression youngsters escape from "the dilemma of no experience, no job; no job, no experience," over the next ten years built it into a $50 million-a-year agency providing vocational training for youths from 16 to 25, an idea resurrected last year as the Job Corps by one of his old state directors, Lyndon B. Johnson; of intestinal cancer; in Washington...
...They must curb their "primeval ahneemal appetites," says Gina, but she can't curb the bohemian in herself. In protest against unnamed bureaucrats who have requisitioned a fig leaf for a work of art, she defiantly agrees to march on the U.S. embassy just as Rock's boss arrives there. Gina appears as promised, sitting astride a white horse a la Lady Godiva, filling a flesh-toned body stocking that rolls all the way up to the neck. There are no runs in Gina's stocking, but Bedfellows itself has very crooked seams...
...superb film anyway. But anyone who has read the book would join me in adding the "anyway." For in the novel, the Englishman whom Bates portrays is a complex character, whom the reader respects as much as he loves Zorba. Zorba may embody life, but Zorba's boss hardly embodies lifelessness...