Word: oldman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stanley Surrey combined the best of theory and practicality to become the dominant figure in world and U.S. tax policy over a 30-year period," said his former colleague and international tax specialist, Professor Emeritus Oliver Oldman...
Three former Secretaries of theTreasury--Douglas Dillon, Henry Fowler and JosephBarr-- served as chairs of the professorship fund,which was organized in the 1985-86 academic year.Attorneys Joseph Guttentag and Donald Lubick werevice-chairs. Professor Oldman coordinated theirefforts...
...fund's committee in Japan, responsible forraising more than $500,000, was chaired byProfessor Hiroshi Kaneko, who was a Harvard LawSchool student under Surrey and Oldman from 1961to 1963 and a visiting scholar from...
...Gary Oldman, who hasn't had a decent movie role since he played Rosencrantz (or was it Guildenstern?), seems suited to the role of Beethoven. The actor embodies the right combination of anger and sensuality, but he's no match for the movie's ludicrous plot and bad dialogue. The film never permits him to excercise the wonderful sense of irony that underlies his best performances. The reptilian Oldman is forced to sit around in a bad wig reminiscent of the worst excesses of J.J. Jimmy Walker. Mostly, he purses his lips and sulks...
...bonding of Mathilda and Leon may be among the strangest in the long, tiresome history of odd-couple movies. The sweetness that develops between them as they try to elude the rogue dea agent who orchestrated her family's death (a divinely psychotic Gary Oldman) is crazily dislocating, the more so since Besson's French vision of the New York underworld is so eerily unreal. His final shootout is masterly cinema -- this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them...