Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is the age of the really cute guy, and James Woods is a really scary guy, as he shows in his portrayal of lawyer Eddie Dodd in True Believer. At the start of the film he sticks his face into a jury box and yells. It is a demonic face, hollowed out by unfathomable passions, the eyes agleam with an anger that may be authentic, or may be faked for persuasive purposes. Or maybe its roots are in something that happened to Eddie in kindergarten. Who knows...
...wickedly funny send-up of android sci-fi, featuring a voluptuous male-fantasy robot (named, naturally, Dolly) who is much nicer than any of the humans around her. In the title story, an actress in a grade-B theatrical company falls for an odd, possibly psychotic lawyer who wants to use her in a complicated revenge and moneymaking scheme. Her only onstage talent is her ability to scream convincingly; at the end, she screams for real but also for a reason impossible to guess beforehand. Ingalls, an American living in London, has built a cult following through her six previous...
Hope, the first woman ever to serve on the Corporation, is a Washington lawyer who has maintained close ties to Schroeder and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth H. Dole since the days when they were three of the 20 or so women at the Law School...
...into a class-action suit representing some 10,000 workers, mostly clerical and managerial, who will reap millions of dollars in pay adjustments. The accusation: that GM's system for judging worker performance discriminated against blacks. "Evaluators were allowed to indulge their biases, conscious or unconscious," said Dennis James, lawyer for the plaintiffs...
...Baker who regularly needed to keep Bush on board with the fall campaign's attack strategy. By all accounts, the key to his success with Bush was a smooth manner. At every turn, Baker played the high-priced corporate lawyer who subtly guides his client to "choose" the option the lawyer intended from the start. "Everything was couched in the most mild way so as to let Bush make the final decisions," says one of the campaign's senior advisers. "It was always 'Hey, Bushie, the gang here thinks you ought to do thus and such -- but only...