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...Strack admits, “but it’s really rewarding.” He especially appreciates the ability to be involved in all aspects of the restaurant—from the hands-on cooking to management. “The best thing is being your own boss, making money based on your own ideas...
Since that time, many College officials have been operating under the assumption that Gross would be their new boss...
...height of the terror," writes Taubman, a professor of political science at Amherst College, "Khrushchev gave violent, bloodcurdling speeches rousing 'the masses' to join in the witch-hunt. As Moscow party boss he personally approved the arrests of many of his own colleagues and their dispatch into what he later called the meat grinder." He had other sins on his head, many from a later time; he brutally crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising, for example...
...quarter-century ago, two young aides to Senator DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN went to collect their boss at the Carlyle, the hotel where the Senator would stay when he was in New York City. As they approached his room, distinctive laughter could be heard: "Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah." Peals of laughter, gales of it: "Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah." With some trepidation, they knocked on the door. More laughter, and finally Moynihan appeared in robe and underwear--and behind him, Jackie Gleason playing the working-class hero-bozo Ralph Cramden in The Honeymooners on television. "It's an important part...
...promising device winds up in a puddle of missed opportunities. The contrasts and parallels in the three alternate scenes seem arbitrary, unfocused and occasionally confusing. (It's hard to tell, at least as Matthew Warchus directs it, just what, if anything, has gone on between Sonia and Henry's boss before this evening.) Worse, the intial misunderstanding - guests who arrive for dinner on the wrong night - winds up having little to do with the rest of the play. In each the three variations, Reza skips the key scene in which the couples discover the mistake; she jumps straight to later...