Word: mister
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shadows the subject matter casts. Written by Marc Blitzstein in the depths of the depression. Cradle paints the struggles of infant unionism through a severe but jazzy stylization. The single piano hammers in the background as the residents of "Steeltown, U.S.A." battle the manipulations of the inexorable, cigar-chomping "Mister Mister" (David Reiffel). Mister Mister owns the factories and the town newspaper and heads the union-busting Liberty Committee, his wife bribes the preacher to fan war hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying to bring...
...short acceptance--speech, Cagney told the audience an anecdote about Jack Lemmon '47, a former Hasty Pudding member and winner of the Man of the Year Award in 1973, whom Cagney met in 1955 when the two were starring in "Mister Roberts...
...while, but was increasingly uneasy inside the large corporation. When Warner displayed no interest in his idea for a chain of pizza parlors featuring video games, Bushnell stormed out to start Pizza Time Theatre. There are now 85 outlets in five states, where robots named Chuck E. Cheese, Mister Munch and Madame Oink perform vaudeville acts and tell corny jokes to the smell of pizza and the sounds of roaring video games...
Paul eventually nods; then says faintly: "Aye. Revenge." As if to make his case forever, Joseph thrusts his face toward the American stranger. "You. You'd take revenge too, wouldn't you, Mister...
Samuel Pierce, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has not noticeably increased his visibility since the notorious White House meeting last June when the President did not even recognize him. "Mister Mayor," said his boss, "how are things going in your city?" Pierce, 59, presides over a department that others in the Administration view mainly as a target for budget cuts. During the first round of reductions last spring, Pierce, a lifelong Republican, objected only to the proposed elimination of Urban Development Action Grants, which help finance private construction in inner cities. He was able to save the program, which...