Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handful of actors have enough box-office clout to get produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite...
This last lesson is perhaps most startling to America's feminist groups. Two weeks ago, backed by angry calls and letters from women across the country, they demonstrated their clout by pressuring the Senate into investigating Anita Hill's story. When Hill walked into the Senate Caucus Room, women across America saw her as the bearer of an old secret about the ugly politics of accommodation between men and women on the job. But by the time Hill walked out of the hearings, a majority of women had decided she did not speak for them...
...race to create vast financial supermarkets, American Express was among the first in line. Backed by a blue-chip image and the clout of its ubiquitous green charge cards, the Manhattan-based conglomerate went on a spending spree in which it acquired brokerage firms, insurance companies and a real estate business in an ambitious bid to offer a grocery list of investment services under one roof...
Those numbers are giving metal bands the kind of clout once reserved for pop's biggest stars. In August Columbia Records signed Aerosmith, a hard-rock band with metal overtones, to a $30 million-plus contract. Motley Crue's deal is even sweeter. Elektra Records will pay the Crue at least $35 million, including a $22.5 million advance, for its next five albums. Meanwhile, A&M Records expects big things from Soundgarden, a Seattle-based band that packs the sonic punch of early Led Zeppelin...
...received after midnight on Oct. 14 at a post-office box in Arlington, Va. Immigrants and their lawyers are converging on Arlington to dump thousands of applications directly at the post office. About 40% of the slots are reserved for people from Ireland, which reflects not only the clout of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy but also recognition of the problem posed by the presence of as many as 100,000 illegal Irish immigrants...