Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boss has had it in for ((Geoffrey Howe, then Foreign Minister)) for quite a while, ever since he started going round saying he had invented Thatcherism . . . It was only a matter of time before the throwing knife was heading for the spot between his shoulderblades . . . Our scheme was to shift the little sod Howe out to Leader of the House, along with all the other deadbeats . . . I remember very clearly writing all this down and Margaret agreeing. My writing may have got a bit illegible towards teatime . . . A few very stiff drinks later, we looked at the list and realised...
...memorable scene is a series of clips as members from each social group dump on somebody else. Mookie (Lee) hurls derogatory anti-Italian comments on the boss' son Pino (John Turturro), who insults him back with just as many racist stereotypes. Then the film cuts then to the policeman, who insults a Hispanic youth, who insults the Korean family who has recently opened up a vegetable stand on the block. The Korean man follows with his own insults about Jews. The circle of hatred, it seems, would go on endlessly, if there were any Jewish characters in the film...
Mookie is a self-absorbed pizza deliverer, able to control himself admirably in the face of offensive racism from the boss' son, but drawn to incite violence against his employer when the police kill one of his friends...
When General Wojciech Jaruzelski had spoken and returned to his seat beside George Bush in the Polish Parliament, Bush reached over and patted the Communist boss's forearm. A little later, clustered with some newly chartered Polish Little Leaguers, he scooped up the grinning kids and pulled them close for the ritual team picture...
...reputation suffered a more serious blow last week, when one of his former top aides implicated him directly in the scandal. Though Pierce had told a House subcommittee last May that he had never been personally involved in HUD program grants, Shirley McVay Wiseman told the panel that her boss had directly ordered her to approve $16 million in federal subsidies for a housing project in Durham, N.C., proposed by Pierce's former law partner. She refused, she said, so Pierce signed the papers...