Word: metier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them to feel an emotional stake in this process." Like all the managers, Posner faxes his orders to his trader each morning and usually doesn't trade again all day. Eighty percent of his workday is spent on the phone to companies or meeting with executives. True to his metier, he relies heavily on corporate financial statements: "They tell me what can realistically be accomplished...
...known she had grown up in the Northeast. She had been posted to Ethiopia in the late 1950s and served in the CIA station in Finland in the early 1960s and in the Hague in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s she had found her metier, counterintelligence--combatting opposition spies and moles--when she was appointed head of the research section in the Soviet division's counterintelligence group, then chief of the branch that maintained biographies on Soviet and East European operatives. When a new KGB officer popped up in Bangkok, or the agency was targeting a GRU colonel...
Cartoonists from Jules Feiffer to Garry Trudeau have doubled as playwrights, for understandable reasons: both crafts use dialogue and visual narrative, and in both the best humor is rooted in personality. Lynda Barry, whose weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her truest metier may be the stage in THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, a sometimes campy yet mostly poignant off-Broadway memoir of blue-collar life in the '60s. The plot crams in far too much -- infidelity and divorce, the random death of a child, teen sex, Volare, bygone rock dances...
...Kelley was finding her metier: rummaging through people's secrets, real and imagined. She wrote a free-lance article about resorts where the rich and famous frolicked, and parlayed the piece into The Glamour Spas, a book flecked with naughty gossip. This brought her to the attention of New Jersey celebrity-book publisher Lyle Stuart, who sent her off to do a job on Jackie Onassis. Kelley's friend at the time, gossip columnist Liz Smith, gave her voluminous files on Jackie, and Kitty set out on a tireless quest for the down and dirty. The book, Jackie Oh!, revealed...
Vienna, where the composer spent his last 10 years and which he called "the best place in the world for my metier," has plans that are accordingly sumptuous. The Staatsoper and the Volksoper will play Mozart operas all season. The gilded halls of the Schonbrunn Palace, where the six-year-old Mozart once jumped into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa after one of his concerts, will be the setting for all his string quartets, as well as outdoor performances of Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro...