Word: getterism
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Their company name, Merchant Ivory, is discreetly suggestive, like the first line of a haiku, or like their films. Merchant (Ismail, 55, Bombay-born): the getter, the peddler, the producer, the indefatigable fund raiser from private and government pockets in the U.S., Britain, India and Japan. Ivory (James, 63, Berkeley-born): the begetter, the director of films as smooth, durable, precious and endangered as an elephant's tusk...
...Crimson, which had been ranked sixth in the nation by the Albany Times Union poll, actually dropped out of the top 10 as the eleventh vote-getter despite winning the ECAC. By doing so, Harvard became the first regular-season conference champion to not be ranked in the final week of the poll...
...think I did well because I was committed to a strong rent control position," says former city councillor David E. Sullivan, the top vote-getter in the 1987 election...
...leads are not the problem; they illuminate their roles. Fox, an icon of sunny impudence, plays a blend of his two most famous roles: the sassy kid from Family Ties and the cherubic go-getter in the Back to the Future trilogy. And Hurt, Hollywood's white-collar star, mines wit and pain from a static character. The actor can get wondrously glum when he plays a smart guy flummoxed by fate, which is why he should have been cast as the hero-victims in Presumed Innocent and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Instead he got The Doctor, whose style...
...course, everyone knows that occasional preferential treatment is inescapable; but when the beneficiary is a white male, we have a way of assuming that the basic ability exists, that in time the ambitious go-getter will grow into his unearned station. Even when qualifications are so slight (witness Dan Quayle) as to make a presumption of merit difficult, we tend to see the incident as an aberration in a system that by and large works the way it should...