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Speed the Plow depicts a day in the life of a Hollywood studio. The recently promoted and gut-wringingly smug Bobby Gould selects the scripts which the studio makes into movies. Ambitious and unthinking, he is on the verge of green-lighting yet another crass but lucrative crowd-puller. But he is thrown into a quandary by his insinuating temp's efforts to promote a pretentious novel about radioactivity. Much soul-searching ensues as Charlie Fox, a subordinate, and Karen, the secretary, wrestle for control of Gould's mind and agenda...
...have to say it bothers me [a trade in organsfrom live donors], I don't know why," he says."It's just a gut feeling...
First-years don't know which classes are likely to be lotteried, which classes they might want to take for an "academic relaxation credit" (read: gut), which classes are notoriously difficult...
...role last week as he sat in his office, sipping tea while he assessed for TIME reporters his first eight months in office. His biggest surprise, he said, is the "unrelenting intensity of decision making. A typical CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company will have two to three gut-wrenching decisions a week to make. The President and Vice President will have six to eight such decisions every day," he said. "But there is no time in between for a sigh of relief...
...Chita Rivera, star of two musicals (The Rink and the current Tony winner Kiss of the Spider Woman) for which McNally wrote the books. "He's musical. He writes to the rhythm of the person. If he knows you, he'll go to the core, right down to the gut." John Tillinger, director of McNally's recent plays, sees a flowering in the veteran playwright. "In his earlier work," he says, "he wanted to write about deep feelings but felt he didn't have the right to do it. Who would have guessed that the acceptance, the healing, the mystical...