Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robin Boss and Martha Berkman produced another first-place finish for the Crimson by triumphing over Virginia's first doubles team; Cyndy Austrian and Jacki Farrell rounded out the competition with a fifth-place showing in second doubles...
...midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for distribution of a 34-page study on how the Soviets have advanced 5,000 of their research projects with technical information bought, stolen or acquired legally in the West...
...bohemian sidekick Alice, Ullman provides the film with some strongly needed comic relief. Her entrance on screen is a treasure; waltzing into the office decked out in a man's pinstriped suit, she silences her employer's huffy outburst at her appearance, by remarking "Imagine what my boyfriend's boss is saying right now." Hare balances Alice's bohemianism with Susan's purified idealism--as Susan becomes progressively disconnected, Alice straightens herself out, eventually becoming one of Susan's few emotional supports. Sting's cameo as a London prole whom Susan selects to father her a child out of wedlock...
...locale for ABC's Lady Blue, a hard-edged cop show about a female homicide detective who shoots first and asks questions later, a sort of Dirty Harriet. Red-haired Jamie Rose wields her .357 magnum like a pro, and Danny Aiello is fine as her exasperated boss. The series is scheduled to be replaced in November by Dynasty II: The Colbys, a spin-off of the hit soap. But if it maintains the quality of its exciting two-hour pilot, Lady Blue deserves assignment to a permanent beat...
...maybe the financial rewards weren't so great and the groupies--as well as I can recall in the haze of post victory euphoria--weren't beating down my door, but my primary goal, beating Crimson sports boss Jeff Zucker was accomplished...