Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruce Springsteen become America's rockin' role model? Critic Dave Marsh, a member of Springsteen's inner circle, suggests that he was driven to it by two haunting figures, Elvis Presley and Ronald Reagan. One a hero gone wrong, the other an antagonist, both taught the Boss a lesson about the hazards of being isolated and uninformed. After Reagan was elected, the Boss traded romantic fantasy for a gritty populism and gave birth to Born in the U.S.A., his heavyweight album about everything from Viet Nam to dying hometowns. In this overlong account, Marsh purveys no dressing-room scandal -- apparently...
...former Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, 72. Serving a ten- year sentence on a 1982 bribery and fraud conviction, Williams testified on videotape at the Manhattan trial of twelve reputed Mafia members and associates for alleged racketeering. He described how emissaries of the late Kansas City, Mo., Mafia boss Nick Civella brought him a message: If he did not become Civella's "boy," he could anticipate the deaths of his two children, his wife and himself, in that order. He became the boy. "Organized crime was filtered into the Teamsters union a long time before I came there," he summed...
Unaccustomed to such a hands-on director, the actors at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival were perplexed at first, afraid that the boss might stifle their creativity. "I should have heard those lines, and I didn't," was his constant complaint during rehearsals of Broadway, a melodrama he had first directed in 1926. But then they remembered the name behind that stern voice. "Hey," said one young actor, "this is George Abbott! We know it's going to work...
...served only 17 months as Fed chief, was proving ineffective against the growing crisis. Suddenly one day in July, while Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon was cooling off in his backyard pool, he got an urgent phone call from President Jimmy Carter, who wanted suggestions for a new Fed boss. "Paul Volcker," Solomon replied with little hesitation. "Who's that?" Carter asked, not recognizing the name of the head of the Fed's New York branch...
...Second Team All-N.E. Second Team David Berkoff '88 Swimming All-Ivy First team All-America First Team Joe Bernheimer '90 Squash Ivy Rookie of the Year Bill Bird '88 Swimming All-Ivy Second Team Kristin Bland '88 Tennis All-Ivy First Team (doubles with R. Boss) Craig Boulris '87 Baseball All-Greater Boston League Robin Boss '87 Tennis All-Ivy First Team (singles and doubles) Allen Bourbeau '88 Hockey All-Ivy Second Team All New England All-ECAC Honorable Mention Ingrid Boyum '87 Squash All-Ivy First Team Gordon Burnes '88 Sailing All-America John Catliff '87 Soccer...