Word: stanton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past years Paley balked at giving real authority to three other presidents: Frank Stanton, Charles Ire land and Arthur Taylor, all of whom were well regarded for their managerial talents. Stanton was forced to retire, Ireland died after less than a year on the job, and Taylor was fired. Said former CBS Programming Chief Michael Dann last week: "The presidency of CBS is not known as the softess couch in town." But Wyman may have reread Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innis-free": "And I shall have some peace there...
...Backe's predecessor, Arthur Taylor, the self-confident financial expert Paley had hand-picked as president four years ear lier. Under Taylor, CBS profits had climbed to new rec ord levels. In the past decade, Paley had balked at turning over real authority to two other presidents, Frank Stanton and Charles Ireland...
...Peter Stanton, the executive director of the Rent Control Board, said yesterday he "had no objection" to the ombudsman idea. "I think he ought to be separate from our staff, though, so he can retain objectivity," Stanton added...
...Wright's Sabbath Hawks moves like a tetched possum trying to seduce a wolfhound. Wright was the dippy lesbian in Girlfriends and she gives Sabbath a similar flightiness, the nervous soul of a girl who revels in sex and sin. Harry Dean Stanton is properly menacing as the conniving Asa Hawks who wants to torture Haze in a fraudulent game of redemption. Daniel Shor fusses and leaps about hilariously in an ape suit as the deranged Enoch Emery, whose new Jesus is a shrunken South American mummy stolen indiscreetly from the city MVSEVM. And Ned Beatty, the only "name...
...case that provides the opportunity for opposites to attract is the dognaping of a champion schnauzer by a trainer (Harry Dean Stanton) with a bad gambling debt to pay off. The victim, besides the hound, is a poor little rich girl (Barbara Babcock), who regards the pooch as the only good thing in her life. The crime is just ludicrous enough to penetrate Valnikov's self-absorption. Besides, he is a pet lover himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably...