Word: protractedness
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Lange, another of our most compelling actresses, is unfortunately stuck in a role that strongly recalls her earlier, more interesting work in "Frances" and "Music Box." One thing an audience should not feel in a drama this malignant is a niggling deja vu. Leigh, for once, drops the mannerisms, but...
Takeover wars are always messy clashes of money and egos in which each side accuses the other of trying to give shareholders the shaft. But the bitter and protracted fight for ITT (1996 sales: $6.6 billion) is a throwback to the corporate wars of the 1980s. "It is very troubling...
He rated all of it, and more. But Fogerty, on his own, seemed to be fighting demons. Adopting a fictitious band name, he made an album in 1973 called Blue Ridge Rangers (Fantasy) on which he sang heavy doses of country, bluegrass and R. and B. and played every instrument...
A great part of Harvard's allure lies in such history. As former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Archibald MacLeish wrote in 1976, "When we think now of the greatness of the University we think first of the dead," the long-gone strangers as well as the beloved friends...
Newly confirmed Labor Secretary Alexis Herman discovered last week that it pays to tough it out through even the most protracted Senate confirmation battles. Below, a look at Cabinet-level nominees who cooled their heels the longest: