Word: dears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frenkel believes professional women must stop taking another woman's success as a personal affront. "They have to separate out business from personal issues," she says. For some women, that's impossible, as Laura Srebnik, 33, a Manhattan computer educator, discovered when she suddenly found herself supervising a "dear friend" at a political lobbying group. The friend, she says, became hostile, talked about her behind her back and then quit. The parting explanation, says Srebnik, was "that I had become one of 'them' " -- the power structure. For some women in the workplace, that is still the ultimate insult...
...landmark legislation to protect the lifeblood of Arizona's rapid economic growth: its scarce underground water. This came only after a dramatic charade in which Babbitt enlisted Cecil Andrus, then Secretary of the Interior. The two agreed that Andrus would threaten to cut funding for a major water project dear to powerful economic interests in Arizona unless the state managed its groundwater better. "I went home and called him an overreaching federal hypocrite," Babbitt recalls with a grin. Then, having immersed himself in the arcana of water management, Babbitt mediated eight months of talks among farmers, miners, developers, municipalities...
...however, was faster with a comeback than Alfred Hitchcock. "Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?" asked an actress during the filming of Lifeboat. "My dear," he replied, not even bothering to look up, "you're sitting on it." A man wrote to say that after seeing poor Janet Leigh butchered in the famous shower scene in Psycho, his wife was afraid to step into the bathtub. What should he do? "Sir," Hitchcock answered, "have you ever considered sending your wife to the dry cleaner...
...couple toured the scenic mountains of West Ireland on Friday, Oct. 16, they stopped at Blarney Castle, where Lynch kissed the legendary stone. "All I could think of was the market," he recalls, "as I swung backward, head down, into space, holding onto a steel bar for dear life." He hoped that the stone would give him luck rather than eloquence. But when he called the office that night, he learned that the Dow had plunged another 108.36 points. Worse, Magellan customers besieged Fidelity's 1,500 telephone operators with orders to redeem shares. Net withdrawals on Friday amounted...
...voice:)) 'Actor during the day; at night, strange man who talks about his genitals.' " Still, playing romantic leads in forgettable films chafed the sacred maniac inside him. "When your favorite actors are Peter Sellers and Peter Lorre, you're not seeing yourself saying ((a la Clark Gable:)), 'Frankly, my dear . . .' You just want to go ((and now he shifts into Lorre's metallic purr:)), 'My shirt! You dirtied my shirt!' " Williams needed to find a movie that dirtied his shirt, that liberated his pinwheeling raunch. Now he has. Goodbye, straight-man straitjacket. Good Morning, Vietnam...