Word: mold
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...lacked the rich complexity of the French product. Serious efforts at the Coach Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y., are a big step in the right direction. The production is presided over by Marie-Claude Chaleix, a French cheesemaker who hopes Americans will learn to love the blue mold that indicates age and gives this white cheese its tantalizing earthiness...
DIED. Sam Spiegel, 84, independent Hollywood producer of the fast-talking, cigar-chomping mold, whose grand-scale, big-budget pictures of the 1950s and '60s, notably The African Queen (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), won 23 Academy Awards, including three for best picture; in St. Martin, West Indies. Spiegel was a perfectionist who relentlessly drove his writers, directors and actors, but he commanded, or inveigled, loyalty: many who angrily quit his far-flung film sets at night were persuaded by morning to stay on. Born in what...
Welch was frank with the media when he had to be, and he broke the stoic captain’s mold when the situation demanded it. But though a veteran of the interview room from his four-year career with the Crimson, Welch found himself facing a new brand of inquiry this season...
Summers broke from the D.C. mold to find his new treasurer last year, drawing James F. Rothenberg ’68, president and director of Capital Research and Management, the investment advising firm for the country’s most successful hedge funds. Although he concentrated in English as an undergraduate, Rothenberg was yet another Corporation member in finance or economics, the fourth on a board of seven. Summers had shaped the Corporation in his own image...
During his 16-year term as president, Cabot steered HMC through the market crash in 1987 and cast the company—the first university management company of its type—in an unconventional mold. He globalized the HMC portfolio in the late 1970s and started investing in private companies and venture capital. Cabot says his investments were sometimes criticized as risky. But, by the time he stepped down in 1990, the endowment had grown to five times its initial size...