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Despite the sophistication that underlay her slapstick and the respect she commanded as the first woman to head a studio, Desilu Productions, Ball said she saw herself as "not an idea girl but a doer." Like the silent comedians she studied (Buster Keaton, her onetime office mate at MGM, taught her how to handle props) and impersonated (her mirror-image confrontation with Harpo Marx and her Chaplin homage were priceless), Ball rehearsed every sequence obsessively. Yet when the cameras were rolling she made each gesture look spontaneous, each wisecrack seem an ad lib. Memorably, Lucy and her sidekick Ethel Mertz...
...made no bones about using the office to preach. / "This is the appropriate job for the Secretary of Education," says he, "where your powers to say and be heard are much greater than your powers to make things be." At the same time, he emerged as a formidable doer within the party. When the news came out that Supreme Court Nominee Douglas Ginsburg had smoked pot as a law professor at Harvard, Bennett made a critical call to Ginsburg, urging him to end his candidacy. Nor, in recent months, has he shown signs of easing back on either the frequency...
There's some truth in all of it, but there is no denying Strauss's reputation as a doer. He has never held elective office and has not even been in Government since he was Jimmy Carter's special trade representative and roving Middle East ambassador. But his circle of friends is as wide as any in Washington. Sit long enough in his law office on New Hampshire Avenue and you will hear him deal with a dazzling cross section of Washington's notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper...
Lewis says she thought Fox's reputation as a 'doer,' someone who gets things done, is a well-earned one. "He has a very good instinct about how to move from here to there," says Lewis...
...obliged to become Johnny Unitas.) "You have to remember, Steve has had a protected life. He doesn't even own a credit card." Until now, his concept of property has been a '65 Oldsmobile. "But he'll be fine, because he's a fighter, a doer. He's just realizing the responsibilities ahead, and he doesn't want to feel he has been purchased body and soul...