Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie industry has always looked at minorities with a limited perspective. The Godfather is the prime example. Portray the Italian as a crime boss, Hollywood says, because that's what...
...underappreciated, most of the Soviet Union's 149 million women fight an uphill battle simply to survive the daily grind -- an endless race against time in the effort to juggle job, housework and child care. The average Soviet woman has few modern conveniences, gets little sympathy from the boss and virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters on the eve of his trip to Moscow for this week's superpower summit...
...resigned to that situation. "Women are not suited for administrative positions overseeing men," says Maria Shaulov, 39, who was an architect in Leningrad before moving to New York City last October. Her view is typical even among the educated. "Somehow I feel that for a woman to be the boss is against the natural order...
...tabloid journalism, the Post's owner, Real Estate Magnate Peter Kalikow, presented her with a T shirt emblazoned with the paper's now legendary April 15, 1983, headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. As earthy Post newsroom veterans (uncomfortably adorned in ties and jackets) were introduced to their new boss, many wondered if Amsterdam, of late an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, one of the toniest book publishers in the country, was up to the job. Says Amsterdam's friend and former boss, Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward: "There's not been a more interesting match since Jackie...
...worked with Amsterdam at the Washington Post and was recently named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Amsterdam's detractors complain that she can be impatient, has a thin skin and gets on better with male colleagues than with female. Amsterdam is married to her former boss at New Times, Jonathan Z. Larsen...