Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the overwhelming success of The Boss's latest tour, many of his followers--greatly swelled in number--were expecting Springsteen's next album to be a live record. But instead the 33-year old performer has taken a tack which threatens the immense popularity he has recently gained after 10 years of unrivaled performing and recording. Nebraska, released last week, is a compelling and daring solo effort featuring the most severe music of Springsteen's career; with rarely more than an acoustic guitar, Springsteen confronts his America and its fallen characters in a most disturbing, direct and effective...
PHILLIP DIMITRIOUS, the protagonist in Paul Mazursky's Tempest, is by most standards a very successful man. As a New York architect, he designs fantastic casinos for his mobster boss. He is married to Antonia, an acclaimed actress still the object of others' desire. His daughter, Miranda, is completely immersed in the complexities of pubescent pop culture, complete with movie-star worship and bad imported music...
...advantage of the President, and his party, in this fall's campaign. Reagan could have been portrayed as the tightfisted Chief Executive doing battle with a spendthrift Congress. Even though the action in the Republican Senate seems to undermine that strategy, Reagan's advisers insist that their boss intends to stick with that theme on the campaign trail. "Instead of the President vs. the Democrats in Congress, it is now the President vs. those in Congress who favor big spending," says one aide. "It's still a no-lose situation...
...days, if a boss saw a worker with his feet propped on his desk, he would probably furrow his brow and bark, "Don't get too comfortable, Bumstead!" Times change. Today's executive might buy the employee a more relaxing chair. The manager would be applying one of the latest buzzwords in American business: ergonomics. Says Michael J. Smith, chief of motivation and stress research for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: "There isn't one major computer maker or office-furniture maker that doesn't have ergonomics experts designing his equipment...
...bureau's handling of Donovan's confirmation probe 18 months ago. The personal files of FBI Director William Webster, forwarded to the committee last month, reveal that the name of Schiavone appeared several times in the bureau's reports on the 1975 disappearance of former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. That detail would surely have intrigued both the Senate committee that approved Donovan's nomination in February 1981, and the special prosecutor this year. But neither learned about it until last month...