Word: posner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made to look tired and behave with moral myopia. Can't Isabelle see that the European author (Jeroen Krabbe) who courts her is just one more serpent-eyed wordsmith who would flatter a pretty woman's intellect to soften her resolve? Can't she tell that sweet-souled Sam Posner (Peter Riegert), a pickle salesman from the old neighborhood, is the guy for her? Isabelle's Yiddishe grandma (Reizl Bozyk) can tell, in cliches that fall from her lips like ripe plums...
...week the performer pirouetted his way onto Soviet TV in Pepsi commercials featuring slogans like "The new generation chooses Pepsi" that were superimposed in Russian. The ads, along with commercials for Visa credit cards and Sony TV sets, appeared in a series of talk shows with Soviet Commentator Vladimir Posner as host. He interviewed Americans in Seattle on subjects ranging from sex to presidential politics. The ads marked the first time that companies have been allowed to buy time on Soviet...
...advertisers were recruited by Global American Television, a small company based in Colrain, Mass., and co-producer of several public affairs programs that have appeared on both U.S. and Soviet TV. Global American arranged for PepsiCo, Visa and Sony to buy ten minutes on Posner's shows for $20,000 a minute, in contrast with up to $800,000 a minute that advertisers pay for prime time on U.S. networks. Still, said Posner, "we can make some money out of this...
...without delay, the president said, criminals are being set free--Administration extremists didn't take the time to see how well they knew the unkown quantity they were trying to foist upon Court and country. There were hints that Ginsburg, a student of the University of Chicago's Richard Posner, was more inclined to law-and-economics than to law-and-order. Former colleagues on the Law School faculty suggested we might be surprised by his liberal views on social issues. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...
Faculty response to the proposals varies, Posner said. "The people who aren't upset are those who've been in the college for forty years and feel that the change is not significant...