Word: commandeer
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...exit it was time to come clean. He urged Sony to take a substantial write-off of its Hollywood assets. (The music and television operations remain big moneymakers.) Around the same time, Schulhof recruited Jeff Sagansky, the former president of CBS's entertainment division, to be his second in command. But observers wonder what role Sagansky has been playing as a long-term strategist. "He's a mystery to everyone," says a Hollywood agent. Though he may have helped save Sony Pictures, Schulhof may be too late to save his own job. "He has a grim future," comments one rival...
...forma piano score, with some instrumental indicationsin the fall of 1992, two months before Albert's death. Composer Sebastian Currier deciphered the manuscript and added missing dynamics. A smaller, more compact work than RiverRun, the three-movement, 20-minute symphony, as conducted by Hugh Wolff, attests to Albert's command of the post-Romantic idiom. A soaring arch, it consists of two slow movements framing a biting central scherzo, and it is full of Albert's trademark evocations of musical forebears. It opens, for example, with a motive for two clarinets, twined in thirds, that recalls Wagner, and along...
...strikes. A meat shortage was so bad that House Speaker Sam Rayburn dubbed the 1946 debacle "a damned 'beefsteak election!' " But '46 was also, says Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley, "a referendum on Truman," whom contemporaries regarded as too small-town, too intellectually limited and too amiable to command "the fearsome respect" that should attend his office. They couldn't vote him out, so they voted the 80th Congress...
...incredible opportunity to hear so many people with such a command of words," said Annie Baehr, a Winchester resident, following the meeting...
...Clancy, author: "Close National Airport. Buy up the old Berlin Wall and plant it around the White House, but it might give the wrong impression. Move the White House to Cheyenne Mountain, headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command...