Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end some members of Carter's staff, taking a hint from the boss, were even suggesting that he need not be called Mr. President. He seemed to prefer "Mr. Carter" or simply "Sir." But not, apparently, just "Jimmy...
...East Germany. Once the most obedient of peoples in the Soviet bloc, the East Germans have begun to manifest discontent with life in the most prosperous and at the same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
They say that the new Treasury boss arrived in the U.S. a penniless immigrant and worked his way up to the chairmanship of a major corporation. Why such a successful capitalist would walk away from a $500,000 a year job simply to work as a poorly-paid government official is difficult to understand, unless, perhaps, he has special plans for all those printing presses in the Treasury building...
...seering social satire, Grand Illusion for its flawless humanity--but this film ranks as the French director's most endearing work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into the revenge against this meany; the printer and his fellow workers triumph by taking over and collectivizing the printing shop, bringing...
...flout are the iron laws of comic contrivance. They must, it seems, receive an implausible invitation to a party at the offices of the firm that fired Dick, for only then can they get at a huge slush fund that rests in the safe of Dick's ex-boss (played by TV's Ed McMahon...