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...Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street. Instead, it serves as a model for the unglamorous way he thinks business should be conducted. The only frill in his office is a Persian rug. Icahn manages his frenetic investment ventures with a staff of just eight, who scurry about their nondescript cluster of offices with no pretensions of power, eat lunch at their desks and do not bother to use intercoms. Says Office Manager Gail Golden: "We holler back and forth...
...Island is located on Revere BeachBoulevard, a 10-minute walk from the nearestsubway stop. It is a nondescript red brickbuilding lost among the bright neon lights andbars that face the beach...
...best picture," but that is more a reflection on its feeble competition than on the film itself. Another in a series of Woody Allen's ruminations of life, love, death and the Big Apple, this movie features very little of Allen himself and focuses on a trio of rather nondescript siblings, played by Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey and Diane Weist. The critics raved about Hannah when it was first released, but in comparison with other Allen efforts, this well-intentioned clunker comes in a distant sixth or seventh...
Translation from stage play to film meant opening it up, in movie jargon --adding exterior scenes--but the center of the action is still the kitchen of a batty old Victorian house belonging to the sisters' dying grandfather. The company bought a nondescript house on Southport's North Caswell Street and added $200,000 worth of Victorian folderol: two towers, a gazebo, a side porch, green shutters and purple-and-yellow stained-glass windows...
...studio apartment in Boston's North End was an unlikely headquarters for a multimillion-dollar business. No grand entrance, no smiling receptionist. But it was in that nondescript room that leaders of the Angiulo crime family, the city's predominant underworld dynasty, met regularly to plan the fortunes of an evil empire fed by murder, gambling and loan sharking. Often their plotting turned to what they considered a vexing subject: how to avoid the reach of a unique federal law called RICO, which not only targets Mob leaders but can also dismantle their whole illegal enterprise. "Remember that word 'enterprise...