Word: brasses
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...entire Bunker family fell ill and Maude took over the household ? especially Archie ("You can either get up off that couch and eat your breakfast or lie there and feed off your own fat ... and if you choose the latter you can probably lie there for months"). The CBS brass was watching and, in Norman Lear's words, "saw a star." A second episode ? in effect a pilot ? was concocted, in which Archie and Edith visited Maude on the eve of her daughter's wedding to a Jew: it clinched the deal for a new series...
...DreamWorks film studio. Spielberg has the warmest of directorial styles; Kubrick's is among the coolest. One aims to seduce the audience; the other wanted to bend moviegoers to see it his way, or to hell with them. The resulting fugue is like a piece composed for brass but played on woodwinds, a Death Valley map on which Spielberg has placed seeds, hoping they will somehow blossom...
People who make deals for a living have always fascinated me. High stakes and chutzpah--that's the ticket. Yet beyond the brass, many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set--vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy. Such qualities are the backbone of lasting success in any field, and to the extent they can be learned, we should all crave input. In A Passion to Win (Simon & Schuster), by Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler, we go to school alongside one of the best. Redstone, a Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into...
...Philip Morris brass was likewise struggling. "This verdict is outrageous and holds our legal system up to ridicule. It is the result of legal errors we believe will require reversal of this verdict," PM vice president and associate general council William Ohlemeyer said in a statement Wednesday. "The jury was given incorrect legal instructions, prevented from hearing important evidence and asked to believe that the plaintiff was only vaguely aware of the risks of smoking and the U.S. Surgeon General's warnings that have appeared on every pack of cigarettes Mr. Boeken smoked for more than 30 years." The company...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...