Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tennis players are manufactured on a centralized industrial model, with a five-year plan, a budget set in Prague and a chain of bureaucratic command that runs from rural sports committees up through the central committee of the Union of Physical Culture. According to the locker-room wisecrack, the only difference between player development and the national economy is that the tennis program works...
Born almost embarrassingly rich, W. Averell Harriman (Groton '09, Yale '13) could easily have idled his life away as a dilettante without appreciably denting his family fortune. Yet Harriman, who died last week at 94, always heeded the command of his father, Railroad Magnate E.H. Harriman, to "be something and somebody...
...film, humor to relieve the pressures of a life that revolves obsessively around their work. Their professional style is based on the belief that the producer-director team that works harder than anyone else and knows in detail every aspect of the production is bound to command respect. Cameron can be demanding on the set. Recalls Reiser: "Working with him wasn't like a frolic." Says Henriksen, who has completed three locations with Cameron: "He is the bride in every wedding and the corpse at every funeral." Most of the couple's decisions are mutual, except when he is staging...
...Toscanini -- with revealing views of him at work. Whether he is steering his orchestra through a demanding passage during rehearsal ("I need super concentration here . . . like you were driving in heavy traffic") or attending to business in his Lincoln Center office, every scene seems to define the man and command our respect...
...drug traffickers would be out of the country before the forces arrived. Said Bolivian Ambassador to the U.S. Fernando Illanes: "With all the advance advice, I think everybody is scampering." At the outset, the mission had a comicopera quality to it. The planned arrival from the U.S. Southern Command in Panama of the C-5A transport ferrying the helicopters, to be followed by C-130 troop planes, had to be delayed three days because a wildcat gasoline strike prevented refueling at Santa Cruz airport. While the huge C-5A sat at the airport in full view of TV cameras, reporters...