Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Backstage at "Guys and Dolls," I overheard an actress ask, in a clever double-entendre, a current Pudding actor, "Do you like doing it better with men or women?" He answered, offhandedly, "I don't know. Let's give you a professional director and voice coach...
...time or another most high schools in America mount a production of Guys and Dolls. This is not surprising: it's a solid performance piece with a clever story, jazzy songs and nothing too controversial or risque, unless your town is likely to be offended by dice games and chaste kisses. It's also weathered the years far better than most other golden age American musicals, with much more grit and character than, say, Oklahoma or South Pacific, which can really test the patience of even the most adoring parents. Plus, high school kids can be cute when wearing loud...
Trevor S. BlakeLaudable ideas but lackluster delivery made this candidate fade into the background. A tall guy but not a stand-out. John A. Burton Wins presentation prize for clever anecdotes and impromtu chalkboard use. The kind of TF we wish we all could have. Eddy J. Dominguez Radical revolutionary bashes council and calls for major structural reform. On the right track, but this isn't lran. T. Christopher King Passionately promises building healthier community at Harvard. But like the hair, he just seems a little too slick. Henry C. Quillen Rhetorical style not quite as interesting as the "Scream...
NORMAN PEARLSTINE, the editor-in-chief of Time Inc., was our choice to write the introductory essay, as it occurred to us that since this was an issue about bosses, we might as well ask our own boss to contribute (clever, huh?). Pearlstine is a former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and has been covering business for more than three decades...
...middle of the century, bosses had to be more clever, if not more subtle. Armand Hammer, whose business career lasted nearly the entire century, required many on Occidental Petroleum's board of directors--most of whom were employees--to give him signed, undated resignation letters that he could use if they tried to vote against him. His closest employees, according to one biographer, formed the Occidental Mouseketeers--with official membership drawings of a cowering mouse on a red carpet. But they weren't as beaten as the ITT execs of the 1960s and '70s, who were regularly grilled and even...