Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to keep the campaign from becoming another Titanic, senior Ford advisers recently held an emergency summit conference. Among those attending were Republican Heavyweights Melvin Laird, Dean Burch and Bryce Harlow as well as some G.O.P. congressional leaders and two savvy fund raisers, Detroit Industrialist Max Fisher and California Businessman Leon Parma...
George Sikowski, the slow-thinking, dull-minded mayor of the town, is up for re-election. His position is shaky at best, and he desperately needs the financial support of his former teammate Phil Romano, a boorish but successful businessman. The problem is that Phil wants to support George's opponent Sharmen, ne Sharmawitz. To complicate matters even more, Phil has been sleeping with George's wife. Naturally, hostilities flare up when James takes it upon himself to enlighten George...
...lack of brain power. Anderson and Philip Weiss (who plays Phil Romano) provide some of the play's most gripping moments in a scene where George, learning of his wife's infidelity, threatens to shoot Phil. Weiss exudes the loudly aggressive yet slightly nervous air of a threatened businessman. Although his flailing arms and gangling walk detract somewhat from the effectiveness of his performance, Weiss's acting is good enough to weather his troubles afoot...
Others said they find it a threat. One businessman who was watching the world go by in the Square yesterday said he suspects that there are "bigger men" than Cohen involved in putting the sign up, trying to create a "New York atmosphere" in Cambridge...
...though confirming the businessman's doubts, a visitor from New York City said the marquee does indeed resemble one in New York's Times Square, and added that she does not see why the Cambridge counterpart was necessary...