Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prefers Home. In the next room, in a huge parlor with a cathedral ceiling, Muriel Humphrey reflects on her husband's new self-acceptance and happiness. "Now they want him," she says with a smile and soft voice. "People actually get mad at me when I say we aren't eager. They resent it. Before, we always had to fight our way uphill...
Much of Korda's book concentrates on dress and the trappings of power, including which briefcase and footwear to buy (Gucci loafers are "power shoes"). Some of his advice reads like a mad parody. Rising executives should practice a strong "power gaze" in front of a mirror. If they can't maintain it without twitching, Xylocaine, an anesthetic ointment, should be applied to the face before important meetings. It is all reminiscent of former Adman Shepherd Mead's 1952 book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Mead, now living in Switzerland, says, "I wonder...
Tcherkassky spins mad circles on the tips of her toes. Van Hamel lunges through the air, landing with a shimmy and a smirk...
...Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, "but not in the midday snow, at least not in my case," protested Director Alfred Hitchcock, 76. Even so, the pudgy film maker and his wife Alma ventured to the snowy slopes of St. Moritz, where he wanted to rest before finishing his latest film, Family Plot. The movie, he said cryptically, is "sort of a comedy-melodrama about a fake woman medium, an out-of-work actor and a chase after a missing heir who is also a kidnaper." Had he bothered even to sample the Swiss snow...
...Avildsen has intentionally chosen this bigger-than-life storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...