Word: harlow
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...with it, dearie." That line, from West's 1932 Night After Night, embodied the saucy spirit of early talkies. Now that Hollywood could speak, it did so in the tart cadences of fast-talking men and faster women. This freedom created fresh stars (James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Harlow) and a sexual impudence that riled the burghers of propriety...
...intelligence community," says Graham. While Tenet's supporters agree that lack of coordination has been a problem, they insist it has been alleviated since passage of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. "There has been extraordinary cooperation between the intelligence community and law enforcement since 9/11," says CIA spokesman Bill Harlow...
There once was a time when America celebrated corporate leaders rather than those who exposed corporate misdeeds, as in 1955, when TIME named General Motors president Harlow Herbert Curtice man of the year...
...American economic system, the U.S. rolled through 1955 in two-toned splendor to an all-time crest of prosperity, heralded around the world. Much of this prosperity was directly attributable to the manufacture and sale of that quintessential American product, the automobile... Production alone would not make Harlow Herbert Curtice, 62, the Man of the Year. Nor would the fact that he is president of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation--and the first president of a corporation to make more than $1 billion in net profits in a year. Curtice is not the Man of 1955 because these phenomenal...
With the rise of the animal-rights movement in the 1970s, Harlow became a punching bag. Feminists also got on his case, since one--admittedly oversimplified--implication of his work on the infant-mother bond was that women should take care of their kids and stay out of the work force. By the time he died, Harlow had become an intellectual outcast. But his once radical ideas about love had become and remain utterly mainstream. --By Michael Lemonick