Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tougher questions posed by broadcast newsmen. Firmly and aggressively in command of the situation, Nixon insisted that he was not trying to hide anything; he simply wanted to ensure that no future President would be surrounded by fearful advisers who are "yes men" too timid to give their boss "the variety of views he needs to make the right kind of decision...
...Government then produced Laurence B. Richardson Jr., former president of Vesco's International Controls Corp., the company that ran the suspect mutual-fund operations. Richardson, 52, broke with Vesco in 1973 over company policies and went to the Government with the story of his former boss's contribution to the Nixon campaign. He testified about attending a meeting with Vesco on March 8, 1972, in Stans' Washington office. According to Richardson, Vesco told Stans that he wanted to make a donation to the Nixon campaign but that he had a problem -the SEC investigation. Vesco claimed that...
...that his story was not written to dash these hopes: "I'm not an advocate of anything. It's a cliché, but the reporter's function is to observe and report. The story took shape only after a lot of legwork." Shipler also has his boss's support. When Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal arrived in Saigon for a visit last week, he declined Martin's offer of an interview...
Yablans seems a caricature of the autocratic studio boss. He became president of Paramount three years ago, after serving as vice president for sales. It was in that position that he perfected his techniques of distribution, mostly while marketing Love Story. When he became president, "The first thing I did was to merge publicity and sales. I must have fired a cast of hundreds in the process, but in the end we had a tight, clean operation in which all roads led directly into my office." If that corporate chart sounds like Napoleon's plan for the highways...
There is the film's beginning, for example. It is 1874 and a group of legally free but exploited blacks is laying railroad tracks under the hot sun. The white boss man demands a song--"a nigger song"--to pass the time. The blacks huddle together and sweetly coo Cole Porter's "I Get A Kick...