Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their testimony, an array of uniformed officers and their civilian boss, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, made a strong case that continued U.S. use of the canal, and American defense of it, would be much better ensured if the treaties are accepted than if they are rejected. Contended General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: "United States military interests in the Panama Canal are in its use, not its ownership. Our capability to defend the Panama Canal will be enhanced through cooperation with the government of Panama...
...brass joined in supporting the treaty, including Vice Admiral Robert L.J. Long, deputy chief of naval operations (he also read a supporting statement from his boss, Admiral James Holloway III, who was on an official visit to India, Iran and Pakistan), and Lieut. General D.P. McAuliffe, commander of U.S. forces in the Canal Zone...
...fitting memento of their meeting. The President and the Russian diplomat had just concluded what may prove to be the most productive round of strategic arms limitation talks since Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Gerald Ford set SALT II guidelines in Vladivostok in November 1974. At his press conference later in the week, Carter said that the Soviets "have been fairly flexible in their attitude and we have tried to match their cooperative stance ... We have narrowed down the differences to a relatively small number." To avoid raising hopes, the President added that "an immediate agreement...
...talented team have created half a dozen imaginative sequences in which their characters-and characterizations-take wing. Using a cheerfully baroque style, free flowing and strong in color and design, the Italians have matched the richness that Disney's animators developed in their great, early years, before their boss forced them into the slick, highly conventionalized mode that has dulled his studio's work ever since Fantasia's early commercial failure. (In rerelease, of course, the movie has been enormously successful...
...Godard himself. He stands in a room filled with his own movie equipment, and leans over a video console that beams forth his face, like a T.V. newscaster's. Making movies has become like factory work for Godard, he admits, saying, "Now there are only machines. I am the boss, but I am also the worker...There are other factories: in Los Angeles, called Fox and Metro, in Moscow, in Algeria..." He then fills the screen with the flashbacks to May '68 and Vietnam. But the news footage, like Godard's revolutionary zeal and assurance, is dwarfed by the monitors...