Word: roger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward a dramatic and offsetting win on the West Coast, Hart canceled election-night network interviews in Los Angeles, missing a possibly vital chance to call attention to his California triumph. NBC had promoted its scheduled interview with Hart on the nightly news. When he bailed out, Correspondent Roger Mudd put questions to an empty chair, a bit of low-blow journalism that enraged the candidate when he heard about it later...
Leisure Spa offered "nude modeling, nude encounters and nude rap sessions" to men who would pay a $10 membership fee-tipping extra, naturally. So what was Roger Jepsen, staunch promoter of traditional family values, doing there on March 15, 1977? Jepsen, now a Republican Senator from Iowa, had many explanations last week. It was, he said, "a moment of weakness." He dropped in thinking the spa was a legitimate health club, he contended, and left in a few minutes after discovering what was really being offered for sale-though he did sign an application. Anyway, the visit occurred half...
Merrill Lynch had an unexpected shake-up at the very top last week. Chairman Roger E. Birk, 54, the company boss since 1981, announced he would step down July 1 as chief executive officer to make way for the firm's president, William A. Schreyer, 56. The move reflected troubles in the Merrill Lynch herd. Only about a year ago, the Merrill Lynch bull was snorting with satisfaction. Propelled by a booming stock market, company profits for the first half of 1983 jumped to $239 million, 3½ times as high as in the same period...
...Roger Rosenblatt
...quotations from Dante's favorite movies: The Searchers, Close Encounters, The Wizard of Oz, To Please a Lady, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Orpheus, The Road Warrior, It's a Wonderful Life, animated cartoons by Warners Old Masters Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, the complete works of Roger Corman. You have to be sharp to catch some of the references. At a meeting of gadgeteers, Billy's dad chats with Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet as Spielberg tools about in wheelchair and leg cast; in the background is H.G. Wells' time machine (from...