Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bilbeisi, and last month a Florida court issued a warrant for his arrest on income tax evasion charges. The eroding fortunes of Bilbeisi and the bank are not coincidental: he was precisely the kind of customer B.C.C.I. sought in its quest to build a global empire. Bilbeisi, who claimed friendship with Jordan's King Hussein, presented a respectable front...
...director Ridley Scott and, through him, to MGM/UA. During the shooting, Scott added much of the phallic imagery -- the huge trucks, the giant cacti and a chemical-spewing plane -- that has riled some of the film's detractors. He also cut scenes that portrayed the close friendship between the two title characters, including one in which each confides what she fears most (for Thelma, growing old with a husband who doesn't love her; for Louise, growing old alone). While Khouri laments the loss of such revealing moments, she is pleased with the picture. "I think they did it really...
...time she tells her story; her reminiscences are set off after seeing an obituary of Julia Wilberforce, who was nearly 80. Both women had achieved a certain fame when young, Julia as a sophisticated cabaret performer and Fay as a singer of ballads on the BBC. Their friendship did not begin then or, in truth, ever. They were thrown together because both married men who belonged to the same law firm and were forced to socialize. "I never liked her," Fay muses about Julia, "nor did she like...
Chave has alleged that the Pulitzers used their friendship with Angelica Z. Rudenstine, who is close to Bok, to persuade the outgoing Harvard president to reject her candidacy...
Those close to Rosovsky say that it is his experience and his friendship with many faculty members that make him a powerful leader...