Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist in Czechoslovakia was suddenly besieged in downtown Prague last week by a pack of long-haired flower children. Carrying assorted objects that ranged from badminton rackets to open umbrellas, wearing bright colors and strung with beads, Prague's hippies thrust bunches of carnations and tulips into Party Boss Alexander Dubček's hands during a May Day parade singularly devoid of the polemics heard elsewhere in the Communist world. Dubček smiled with pleasure at the unusual sign of support for his reformist regime, signed autographs and accepted sandwiches and cake offered him from...
...house by the 15th. It didn't say it was because of school, but I know the agent, Mr. Webbs. He always wanted to know what kind of meeting this was. 'You know enough already. You don't need to know no more,' he said. He told the boss-man. 'Why you goin' down to learn things?' he said. I told him I figured I was grown and didn't have to tell...
Having demolished his desk, the rebellious adman this time really does cut loose. Determined to go straight, Andrew (Oliver Reed) leaves the business, the boss, and the ball-and-chain. To further prove his good intentions, he even jettisons his two mistresses. Soon he gets an honest job at the Gadfly, a drab little literary magazine, where his principal duty is rejecting manuscripts. The rest of the time he accepts the adoration of a puddingy secretary (Carol White) who finds him as irresistible as he obviously finds himself...
...boss, played by Orson Welles, wants him back. Eventually Welles, whose acting is confined to grinning like a corrupt Buddha, removes the Gadfly's sting by acquiring its assets and offices. Undone, Andrew makes one more commercial, this one about Truth. The night of a banquet for the Creativity in Advertising awards, he unreels it-a naive diatribe against planned obsolescence that includes footage of a bulldozer shoveling bodies at Buchenwald and an atomic mushroom cloud rising while a little girl sings All Things Bright and Beautiful...
...facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention. To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed. His meticulously cultivated public image remains that of the sort of magician often hired to entertain at children's birthday parties-a milk-and-cookies Mandrake complete with slick hair and slim mustache...