Word: directors
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...staff director of the Banking Committee in 1981, Wall drafted the industry's dream deregulation bill, the Garn-St. Germain Act. That law created a new breed of thrift operator. In came highflyers like Keating who shifted their depositors' money (now insured for $100,000 instead of $40,000) from unexciting residential mortgages to potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even...
VALMONT. Maybe it's time to call it a day for film remakes of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' novel of sexual gamesmanship among 18th century French aristocrats. Director Milos Forman and screenwriter Jean- Claude Carriere have not so much adapted this deliciously nasty tale as they have embalmed...
IMMEDIATE FAMILY. Glenn Close and James Woods desperately want a child; Mary Stuart Masterson is about to have one. Director Jonathan Kaplan's comedy-drama finds sympathetic laughter in everyone's burdens and opportunities. The tears come later...
...been called "an iconoclastic genius," "a Superman of Madison Avenue," "a legendary advertising guru." George Lois modestly demurs: he prefers to think of himself as "a semi-legendary advertising guru." Naturally that made him the perfect choice for us. Beginning this month, Lois, the creative director of the New York advertising agency Lois/GGK, has taken charge of communicating TIME's editorial benefits to readers and advertisers across America...
...lying on the lawn behind his residence, clad in a familiar dark blue T shirt that seemed to be one of only three he owned. Most of his gentle, bearded face had been torn away by an M-16 bullet. Next to him was Father Segundo Montes, director of the University of Central America's human rights project, and a few feet away sprawled the school's rector, Father Ignacio Ellacuria. The priests' cook, Elba Julia Ramos, lay nearby, her brown dress curled around her waist...