Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bros. had filmed The Maltese Falcon twice before Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy...
...situation has raised pertinent questions about the role and performance of giant corporations. Why had once strong U.S. companies become so vulnerable to raiders and foreign competition? The atmosphere of soul-searching gave rise in 1986 to several of the hottest business buzzwords of the 1980s. One was "corpocracy," meaning the Big Business equivalent of government bureaucracy. The Reagan Administration used the term in contending that many of corporate America's problems were of its own making. Richard Darman, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, stirred the debate in November, when he blasted big < companies' tendency to be "bloated, risk averse, inefficient...
...laughing) I think I was needed just for the transition, when people had to find somebody they could believe in, someone not out of the traditional political mold. Somehow, in the people's perception, I fit that particular role. But I am sure that six years from now, there will be many qualified people, and I will have earned a well-deserved rest...
Those who have known Cory Aquino as wife and hostess are hardly surprised by her quiet authority -- only by the suddenness with which she has steeled herself to her new role, transforming herself in 30 months from a self- effacing lady to a self-confident leader. Yet those who have just met her are often so disarmed by her softness that they overlook her ability to act with decisiveness...
...Ninoy described his wife as "unruffled by trouble, undeterred by the burden, though heavy the load. Nothing is impossible . . ." His sister Lupita, whose relations with the President have sometimes been frosty, now speaks with the fervor of the converted. "I believe that she was born and raised for this role," she says. "After she spoke before the U.S. Congress, I said to myself, 'Ninoy, you can rest in peace. She is the President...