Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other journalism luminaries had gathered on the day of the board meeting at the Park Avenue apartment of Designer Mollie Parnis to fete 60 Minutes Host Mike Wallace and his bride of 2 1/2 months, Mary Yates. The already festive mood brightened considerably as an old Wallace friend telephoned over the news. There is little love lost for Wyman in CBS journalism circles, where the ex-chairman's decisions have been a target for strident criticism. Partygoers vied to congratulate a late arrival at the celebration: Laurence Tisch. Exulted one guest: "CBS has returned to its origins." Said 60 Minutes...
...part of his takeover defense, Wyman went looking for a "white squire" who would buy a major portion of CBS in case a hostile bid seemed likely to succeed. He found Tisch, largely at the urging of CBS Board Member James Wolfensohn, a friend of the billionaire's who is also a former partner at the Salomon Brothers investment firm. According to Wolfensohn, Tisch had become interested in CBS during the Helms takeover crusade, which the investor deplored...
...passbooks . . . What is it?" Silence, broken by a few nervous giggles. "Stand up!" The actor glares at a confused ticket holder in the front row. "What is it?" A terrible quiet. "What is it?" The flustered victim mumbles an answer. With a bitter laugh, his interrogator dismisses him. "My friend," he enunciates fiercely, "you have got to look for it: it is deep down in your heart...
...Things got a little out of hand," nice young Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) tells his nice young friend Sandy (Laura Dern). Well, yes. Walking through the woods of peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said...
...parliamentary elections, and last week he bade farewell to politics with a two-hour speech in the Bundestag. Even in his farewell address, he got in a few glancing blows. Schmidt blasted Chancellor Helmut Kohl for following U.S. policy too slavishly, saying, "The Federal Republic must remain the friend and partner of the United States, but not a client...