Word: bossed
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...next Monday, I was thrilled when she reappeared at the station. I pumped my boss for details and found out her name was Mary Elizabeth Maxwell--but she went by the name Betsy--and that, as a recent graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she had been hired to write ad copy...
...remember being uncharacteristically shy with Betsy, hesitant even to talk to her. One day, though, my boss asked me to read a hair-product commercial the station was recording. When I showed up in the studio, there stood my gorgeous redhead, ready to read the female part. After the final take, feeling frustrated by the exercise, I crumpled the script, threw it on the floor and fumed, "Who in the world writes this junk...
Gilliam is no stranger to conflict. His 1985 movie, Brazil, looked set to gather dust on the shelves until he took out an ad in the trade paper Variety publicly asking the studio boss, "When are you going to release my movie?" He needles the moguls, yet he needs them--and he hates that. "Hollywood," he says, "is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no." Yet he acknowledges his wayward streak: "I'm so perverse that I go the opposite direction of whatever's going...
Daley dismisses the scandals as a few isolated incidents rather than evidence of any "systemic" problem. But even many supporters find it hard to believe that Daley, who practically has patronage in his blood and is known as a hands-on boss, had no idea what was going on. "I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it," says Joe Moore, a Far North Side alderman who was elected to the city council two years after Daley took office. In recent...
...arcane cases concerning administrative and regulatory law rather than the broad constitutional issues before the Supreme Court. And in his roles as a hired corporate gun or a political appointee, as he and many other lawyers see it, he was simply representing the interests of his clients or his boss, including those of the President. That may well be true. But what is at stake is a lifetime appointment as the replacement for the court's key swing vote, so that is a distinction that liberal interest groups and at least a few Senate Democrats are likely to ignore...