Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into popular obsessions and been converted into box-office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic threat, earned $65 million domestically for Hollywood in 1993. Disclosure, his 1994 topical twist on sex-harassment in the office (Demi Moore chases Michael Douglas around the desk) collected $83 million domestically. Congo, his adventure saga featuring a talking gorilla, was released last summer to widespread pans but still made a hefty $80 million. Maybe that's because its advertisements didn't feature a single cast member--just the real superstar behind the project: "From the author...
...Crichton said, slightly defensively. Out back, the swimming pool is covered over. The projectors in the carriage house screening room have been removed. Crichton's actual workspace is within four rather close-together walls. He gives the impression he would be happy if visitors were led directly to his desk and then back to the curb, wearing blinders...
...excerpts that revealed a vain, lecherous, insecure man still caught in the clutches of adolescence. In a 1989 entry, Packwood described an office encounter with a female staff member. "'Would you like to dance?' She says, 'I'd love to.' So I slipped around the side of this gigantic desk and we danced. Boy, she wrapped her arms around my neck...I knew and she knew what we were both thinking... [She] and I made love, and has the most stunning figure. Big breasts." A 1992 entry disclosed: "I tried something. I just blew my hair. I didn...
...Joseph E. Persico, retains a serious but not pompous tone, with frequent flashes of self-deprecating wit. A man fond of maxims, Powell is always looking to learn from mistakes as well as successes, and he frames much of his story that way. Under the glass top of his desk at the Pentagon, Powell kept a pulpit's worth of sayings: Get mad, then get over it. Share credit. It can be done...
...could go to work for Disney's Michael Eisner, then surely Ted Turner could take a seat on Gerald Levin's TW board as a buccaneer emeritus, and do his vision thing. "Ted isn't someone who comes in the office every day and sits at his desk," says a top Time Warner executive. "He travels the world and comes up with great ideas. Some of them don't work, but the ones that do, work great." And the Time Warner deal may be one of them. "Turner teaches cats how to land on their feet," says a cnn correspondent...