Word: innards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pushing himself at an innard-grinding pace, Kendall tells his aides that "if you work twelve hours a day, you finally get to be boss so you can put in 16 to 18 hours a day." The boss puts in his time in a Park Avenue sanctum that is littered with papers and empty Pepsi bottles. On a golden telephone, he often contacts Pepsi's 525 U.S. bottlers, all of whom he knows by their first names. If the Frito-Lay deal goes through, Kendall will be making many overseas calls. While Pepsi is sold in 107 foreign countries...
Trying to create characters with the sheen of surface and intensity of innard required to support his conception, Mr. Mayer has miscarried in one important direction. The young poet who represents innocence against both its opposites is an egregious failure. He spouts fine writing of one sort or another almost every moment he is on stage, and makes himself constantly obnoxious by being out of period and out of it generally: a verbose, stupid, and mawkish...
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