Word: honcho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manufacturing, is tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing "the Betsy," a sort of Model T cum Volkswagen for the '70s, ecologically sound, energy conserving, sensible. He hires a stud race-car driver, one Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones), to honcho the project back at the factory, sneaking it by Loren Hardeman III, the old man's grandson (Robert Duvall), who loves cars less than the balance sheet, his mistress more than his wife, and is an all-around blue meanie...
...union." That freedom includes the right to drive over rutted roads in a pickup truck with a Winchester racked in the rear window, a bottle under the seat and a horse trailer bouncing along behind. Henry also knows that if he and his buddies get a little wild, his honcho will smooth things out with...
...fuss about electing a mayor? Cambridge's mayor gets to cast the deciding vote on the six-member School Committee, chair the city council, and take home an extra $1000 in pay. He also gets the intangible psychic rewards of being head honcho in Cambridge...
...notion that a single Santa ran the whole show. It wasn't until I got to Harvard that my roommates, fools that they were, were convinced by their parents that this red-suited troupe was only a paunch subalterns for the real thing, and that the head honcho would make his annual appearance down the chimney on Christmas Eve. (I also never believed than an amazingly fat man could squeen down ours and countless other chimneys in the course of a few hours. Foolish...
...result, the man who has called 60 Boylston home for longer than the Minnesota Vikings have been alive now resides behind a Park Avenue desk at U.S. Olympic headquarters, where he is the number one publicity honcho. Not bad, but not what he wanted, either...