Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people muttered a few words of sympathy for a President caught up in politics and went about their job of urging the nation to give up cigarettes. But when the new report on "tolerable" cigarette smoking hit the front pages, both an alarmed Surgeon General and Gori's boss at NCI went public to repudiate Gori and make sure everyone understood that cigarette smoking was still not considered safe. The federal antismoking campaign thus rolled on, expecting an extra $10 million from Carter's new budget...
...every Carter campaign since 1966. After unofficially advising Carter since the Inauguration, he joined the White House's senior staff in July. As the $56,000-a-year Assistant to the President for Communications, Rafshoon has the job of improving the public's perception of his boss. He follows in the footsteps of such presidential image burnishers as Truman's Leonard Reinsch, Eisenhower's James Hagerty and Nixon's Herbert Klein...
...shown that in this wide-open economy a hard-nosed scrapper can beat the odds. His first big boss warned him not to expect to rise too high in banking because grandsons of Lebanese immigrants can't make it big in that Wasp world. Abboud was not impressed, and several years ago he beat out three other candidates to become chairman of First Chicago Corp., parent of First National Bank of Chicago. He savors the perks: the chauffeured limo that picks him up in the exurbs at 6 a.m.; the ballroom-sized corner office decorated with Oriental artifacts...
...GAGS? Will you shriek hysterically when the Oriental manservant Kato, trying to spy for his boss, Clouseau, disguises himself with a pair of glasses so thick that he keeps walking into things? I hate to admit it, but I did. Will you giggle helplessly when an assassin hands Sellers a round, black bomb with a sizzling fuse and tells him it's a special delivery package? Again, I plead guilty. How does Edwards get away with this old schtick? By keeping, I believe, his technique straightforward and limp, with no shock-cutting or screwy camera angles to jar us. Most...
Littlechap is a pip-squeak who dreams of being a Pooh-Bah. Starting as "a coffee-colored coffee vendor," he manages to marry the boss's daughter (Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...