Word: friction
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Krim cited a history of friction between the freewheeling movie firm and the textbook-style conglomerate. "This is one business that is really different," he said. Krim and Benjamin, both New York lawyers, acquired the business in 1951 from Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford, who helped start the firm as a place that would allow independent film makers to work without the restrictions imposed by major studios. Run from a dingy Manhattan headquarters, U.A. has no production facilities, but operates in effect as a banker and distributor for movie people seeking an honest count at the box office and exceptional...
...caused by the rubbing of a runner's shirt against skin. This condition, which afflicts not only women who jog braless but also men, can be prevented by covering the nipples with Band-Aids before a long run or by coating them liberally with petroleum jelly to reduce friction. Failure to take such precautions can leave the nipples raw. bleeding and quite painful...
...exclusive" interview; whatever unseemly scrambling this required took place offscreen. On-camera, addressed chummily as Walter, John and Barbara, they deferentially answered back "Mr. President" or "Mr. Prime Minister," behaved like diplomats and asked soft questions, as if afraid their very questions might queer the peace. Confined to friction-free language, they repeatedly used words like historic and momentous; their principal editorial counsel was that viewers should judge the success of the meeting by what Sadat would get in return for his visit-though Sadat seems to have gone happily home without any such present...
John Chancellor is good at speaking the friction-free language he calls anchormanese. But he's looking forward to switching roles after seven highly visible, highly paid years in a job that mostly requires him to set a scene briefly before switching to a correspondent-a snippety, jigsaw process he considers "challenging but not rewarding." He wants to be a commentator. Last summer, with the approach of Eric Sevareid's retirement, CBS News President Dick Salant talked to Chancellor about the job. Chancellor was intrigued but decided to stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract...
Moore concedes that the Carter team initially underestimated the importance of congressional relations. But, he insisted to TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "people around here are more and more aware that a big part of the game in this town is on the Hill." Besides, Moore argues, some friction between the White House and Congress is inevitable during the transition from a Republican to a Democratic Administration. "Every Democrat on the Hill had a backlog of people he wanted jobs for," Moore says. His office still gets 1,000 calls a day (down from 2,000 nine months ago) for everything...