Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they stupid? It's an Ellsberg rule--Ellsberg's Law of Bureaucracy, I'm not a bureaucratic theorist but what I learned in the Pentagon was: Anyone can be as dumb as he has to be to keep his job. The highest plum that any reporter can offer his boss is access to Henry Kissinger, the ability to have a private conversation with Henry Kissinger. You don't get that ability twice if you use it the first time to talk about what a conniver, fool, murderer, war criminal Henry Kissinger...
...received secret payments after his arrest, not merely to meet legal fees but so "that I would not reveal my knowledge of the Watergate affair." Also contradicting his previous testimony, he admitted that he had been given guarded White House assurances of Executive clemency through his former boss, Charles Colson...
...until the final session did the Pope get his chance at rebuttal. He first congratulated the bishops for making the synod a "positive experience." He was pleased, he said, at the "increasing vitality of the particular churches." But he then went on to make it clear who was still boss. He was, he reminded the bishops, "the successor of St. Peter, to whom the Lord has entrusted the serious and enduring role of tending his lambs and sheep, of confirming his brethren and of being the foundation and sign of the unity of the church." Then, pointedly quoting a major...
Gone With The Wind. Unlike Birth of A Nation, Gone With The Wind had the advantage of sound to make its point about blacks: "QUITTIN' TIME!" "Who dat say 'Quittin time'? I'se de boss; I tells yawl when's quittin' time--QUITTIN' TIME...
Also present is Miss York's grandfather, played by Ray Milland, who chomps on stogies and has a good time acting gruff as the boss of the imperiled gold mine...