Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kingsley, who plays Itzhak Stern, the Jewish accountant who both cooked the books for Schindler's lifesaving scams and served as guide to his conscience, was astonished at Spielberg's nerve: "I didn't think he would have the courage and the panache and the command to fill an area of five blocks, a big area of action where you are receiving information from what's happening in the foreground, in the midground and also in your peripheral vision." But these are among the greatest sequences of chaos and mass terror ever filmed...
...contrast, the scenes in which Schindler befriends the German command, the better to suborn them with bribes and favors, first to advance his own interests, later to protect his workers, are filmed in the high formal style of the 1930s and '40s. The style is as cool and calculated as Schindler himself, played with a kind of impenetrable bonhomie by Liam Neeson. The work here comes close to satirizing the antique conventions of espionage dramas...
...gathering every week or so as necessary, in shirtsleeves and without their staffs, crowded around a table in the "war room" at GM's technical center, they have broken a chain of command within the mighty corporation that once rattled as slowly and creakily as castle plumbing. Now these executives act within hours on issues that might previously have taken weeks or months to be resolved -- if ever. Some major topics: Saturn's no-nonsense pay- what's-on-the-sticker pricing; a leasing campaign specially aimed at the California market, a fast exit from profit-draining rental discounts. Even...
...responsibility of the museum staff to see that any document written on Semitic Museum stationery, particularly documents dealing with fundraising, should be passed over the Director's desk. With the staff fully aware that this was expected of them, any attempts to circumvent the proper chain of command is an act of insubordination. In fact, Professor Stager's actions demonstrate his capability to act quickly to prevent further improprieties by individuals who have already run up more than a million dollars in debts...
...forces if the U.S. were ravaged by a nuclear assault? The communication hubs in place at the time -- the telephone switching offices and the radio and TV broadcast stations -- were not only vulnerable to attack, they would also probably be the first to go. The Pentagon needed a military command-and-control system that would continue to operate even if most of the phone lines were in tatters and the switches had melted down...