Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down as a safety precaution. Along the palm-lined avenues, men sit in cafés and restaurants much of the day, sipping tea and exchanging the latest rumors about the war. Although gasoline is scarce, there appear to be no other shortages. Says the wife of a foreign businessman: "I go to the market now and find more of everything. I guess the government must have saved up food and released it when the fighting started...
What propels virtually every Godard male into treating women as a caveman would a woolly mammoth? Is it fear or loathing? Every Man is a catalogue of bestiality. A seedy businessman orchestrates a four-person roundelay of sexual degradation. A man casually asks Paul: Have you ever thought about sodomizing your eleven-year-old daughter? Later, Paul verbally flogs the girl with sexual epithets.This is man, Godard is saying; I am man.Give credit where it is due: Godard has no fear of exposing himself on film. "Paul Godard" (his father's name) is an admitted self-portrait, a skull...
DIED. Ladislas Farago, 74, Hungarian-born author of books on espionage and war (The Game of the Foxes, The Broken Seal) who claimed in 1972 that Hitler's ruthless deputy Martin Bormann was alive and posing as a businessman in Argentina; after a brief illness; in New York City...
DIED. Bruce A. Gimbel, 67, merchant-sportsman who for 22 years headed the department-store chain that grew out of a single emporium in Indiana established by his grandfather Adam in 1842; of cardiac arrest; in Greenwich, Conn. An avid private pilot as well as a shrewd businessman, Gimbel led the chain's expansion into the growing suburbs in the '50s. In 1973 he negotiated sale of the firm, then 10% owned by the Gimbel family and now comprising 69 Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, to a subsidiary of the British-American Tobacco Co. for $195 million...
Terkel revels in giving his readers sudden insights from unexpected sources. An ageing actress who performed in the USO shows in Vietnam asks, "Who wants to die cool? Nobody cool ever changed the world." Or the bitter but successful Mexican businessman who says, "The American Dream, I see now, is governed not by education, opportunity and hard work, but by power and fear. The higher up in the organization you go, the more you have to lose. The dream is not losing." Terkel doesn't capitalize the "d" here as he does elsewhere--this clearly isn't his idea...