Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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starring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo...
...saying that if you are working class, you don't deserve a top job, that you should work as a dustman or a shop assistant." Leeson never attended college. At 18 he became a junior clerk at Coutts & Co., another prestigious bank. In 1987 he became a clerk at Morgan Stanley. That American corporate pedigree, a mark of aggressiveness, was enough to help him land a job at Barings...
...Victoria Morgan's choroeography, usually strong and well-integrated, contributes to the overall tedium of these two moments...
Following such estimable models as The Civil War and Eyes on the Prize, The Promised Land (produced by Anthony Geffen and based on the critically acclaimed 1991 book by Nicholas Lemann) recounts this social history with understated narration (by Morgan Freeman), evocative music (blues and gospel) and the plainspoken words of people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama...
...Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...