Word: bossing
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...extreme team art form, requiring a throng of people with specialized skills to gather for a few months, often in a strange land, and spend long hours in the frequently divergent pursuits of creativity and profit. The director is their aesthetic leader, but the producer is their boss. And the bosses everyone wants to work for in Hollywood are a married team: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall...
...torture-happy. But the answer actually has Dems in a tight spot. To take a hard line against torture, they have to vote against an otherwise qualified candidate. A lot of centrists will rightly argue that no nominee is likely, with partial knowledge, to denounce a technique the boss may have approved. If Democrats approve Mukasey, though, they will have handed Bush a double victory: they would confirm his candidate and compromise their own moral clarity in the process...
...respect that. I was working up to improving my skills and learning how to first write the song,” he said. After working as a music producer and penning a few successful songs for TV (including the theme to “Who’s the Boss?”), Kraft was asked to score a movie. “I had no idea how to do it, and I accepted the gig. I did what I needed to do. I went to a bookstore, read about film scoring, bought some gear, and asked people...
...Philippines, one study has found that more than half the members of Congress hail from a political family. Even in China, where Mao Zedong rose to power demonizing feudalism, a class of "princelings," sons of former revolutionary cadres, has risen like feudal lords, including Shanghai Communist Party boss Xi Jinping, anointed during last month's Party Congress as President Hu Jintao's likely successor...
...Daily Show he was the effortlessly genial (and, by the end of each segment, desperate) Produce Pete. He bore up manfully to all manner of insults in The 40 Year Old Virgin and Evan Almighty; he even lends a certain besieged menschiness to the role of the boss in The Office. But Hedges thinks the audience needs its subjective Carell-atives reinforced, so as Dan woos Marie with his sweet anecdotes we get about a quillion reaction shots of her smiling, twinkling, appreciating his very special Stevitude. It's one of many times the movie tells us what to feel...