Word: goldman
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...Lewis Goldman is impressive in his directorial debut. Goldman's actors are sharp on the delivery and capture just the right expressions, which not only reflects their own abilities but also show the director's skill in coordination. The audience can therefore forgive some directorial mistakes...
...comic theater, directors are faced with certain temptations. Very few actors, for example, can pull off a good Russian accent, and the cast members of The Good Doctor are not among this elite. If Goldman had dropped the Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs a hilarious Monty Python accent, would have seemed more consistent. Other excesses of voice and gesture occur too much at random to be enjoyable and too much to be believably off-beat. In going for the cheap laugh, Goldman unfortunately loses his otherwise perfectly Chekhovian control and his sense of comic...
Women, of course, did not always want to be faced with the new choices which Sanger's activities created. And Forster says that winning the vote produced complaceney. The feminist movement then needed an ideology to propel it Forster credits Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian immigrant to the United States who was active in the anarchist movement with providing this ideology According to Goldman real emancipition begins in the soul after all the outer traps have been removed, internal tyrannies still keep women in subjection...
...executive-recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International. As a result, executives are less inclined to pile up multiple directorships just for the sake of prestige. Sidney J. Weinberg, a legendary financier of the 1950s, once served on 31 boards. By comparison, his son John L. Weinberg, chairman of Wall Street's Goldman, Sachs & Co., holds only six director's posts. The pay remains lucrative. The consulting firm Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby reports that the median annual fee among large companies is $18,000, plus $700 per board meeting and expenses. The most prestigious director's posts pay much more in return...
DIED. Sylvan N. Goldman, 86, inventor of the shopping cart and multimillionaire philanthropist whose fortune was estimated last year by Forbes magazine to be $200 million; in Oklahoma City. Supermarket Owner Goldman built the first shopping-cart prototype in the mid-1930s using a folding chair as a model. The idea, which he patented and eventually marketed, came to him while he watched women using then standard market baskets. Said he: "They had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy...