Word: proprietorship
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...exception to that rule is the sleek and smoothly menacing Frank Langella, playing the founder and chairman of CBS, William Paley. It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship. In those passages the movie achieves the melodramatic intensity--and a certain sophistication about the uses and abuses of power--that is nowhere else evident...
...proprietorship transfer ends months of negotiations between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Institute of 1770, the graduate board of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and Social Club...
...group should have sole proprietorship over "taking responsibility" for our world. History has shown that this formula inevitably leads to others' ending up ignored, oppressed--or worse. The Promise Keepers display newfound zeal in taking charge, but since prebiblical days women, with their minds, imagination and participation, have been helping our society thrive. Let's not assume failure when women lead. REBECCA BERMUDEZ Los Angeles...
...name runs, occasionally roughshod, through the tabloid life of our times. This guy is best known to the general public for trashing a hotel room a couple of years ago and getting busted for it, for his long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...
...speech, Ashe expressed concern over what he called the increasing "provincialism" surrounding the disease. Ashe also warned against "a sense of proprietorship" among AIDS activists...