Word: roger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their feud a fake? "On all the movie sets I've been on," says Siskel, "I've never seen people get as angry as Roger and I get." Nor are the fights confined to the TV cameras. On a recent plane trip, Siskel was trying to teach Ebert to play Michigan rummy. At one point, Ebert accused Siskel of throwing a card into the wrong pile. Siskel denied it, and Ebert suddenly tossed up his seat tray. "That's it," he cried. "No more cards!" Hmmm. Conflict, characters you can identify with -- definitely a thumbs...
...estimated 600,000 guides are sold each year in the U.S., and Roger Tory Peterson's classic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, first published in 1934, has topped 3.5 million in sales. Birders account for most of the $14 billion spent annually on the appreciation of wildlife. That includes binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, records and tapes of bird sounds, computerized software for keeping bird lists, and bird tours that reach any corner of the world, from Siberia and Mongolia (23 days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days...
Since the disaster one engineer, Roger Boisjoly, has quit Morton Thiokol and brought lawsuits for more than $3 billion against the company in connection with the deaths of the seven shuttle crew members. However, Arnold Thompson, another who had argued for a delay, has stayed on "to get things flying again." Thompson's decision to hang in, hoping and working for better decisions in the future, reflects the tendency of most of corporate America. "Managers are paid to manage, and it's up to them to make the final decisions," says Thompson, implicitly accepting the dominance of the organization over...
Bickering in the balcony once a week on TV, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert have turned movie criticism into a hit attraction...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...