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...valuable informer or an agent provocateur, Fitzpatrick has a way of popping up wherever a fuse is burning. As a teenager at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, where Shabazz was also a student, Fitzpatrick, the son of an Irish union organizer and a Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group who were eventually convicted...
Garner's Vandergelder develops a great deal in front of us, with the delicate help of Channing's Dolly. Dolly is a shrewd businesswoman who teaches Vandergelder not only to love her but how to become more shrewd in his business dealings. Dolly's charm mesmerizes Vandergelder; he learns from her without realizing he is being taught...
...doesn't act as if he could read a blueprint, much less draw one up. He's also supposed to be a loving father, but the scenes with his daughter are played as if he fears a charge of child molestation. His wife is meant to be a frigid businesswoman, but you can practically hear Sharon Stone's joints pop as she attempts the stretch. The other woman (Lolita Davidovich) is said to be a witty journalist, but looks as if she might need help booting up her word processor...
...birth to a ) baby in June. Both women had pursued their pregnancies for the most tender of reasons. Dalla Corte and her 65-year-old husband lost their only child, then 18, in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Jennifer F., as the British press dubbed her, a successful businesswoman and a millionaire, decided belatedly that she had missed the fulfillment of having a child. By slipping the physical coils of menopause, these women have inspired not just wonder but an intense debate over the question of when a woman is too old to become a mother...
...Carol Bartz, businesswoman, joining the chorus who urged Clinton to make the tough decisions while he had the presidential honeymoon...