Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the pace of a multi-billion dollar capital campaign may be taking its toll on Rudenstine, Asked about the campaign in a press conference last week, the president's expression grew stern and the customary liveliness disappeared from his voice...
...doubt that we're going to get anything meaningful this year." And next year will only be tougher, with more Republicans expected to be elected to Congress in November. Clinton's supporters console themselves by noting that he isn't likely to be tested on his stern, fountain-pen-wagging threat to veto any bill that fails to guarantee universal coverage. "At least," said a political adviser, "he probably won't have...
...Stanford, 14% of the class of '94 elected to seek jobs abroad, compared with 6% in 1989. Business schools across the country -- from UCLA to the University of Chicago to Harvard -- report similar numbers. These swelling percentages include foreign nationals returning home. But at New York University's Stern School of Business, the number of American students taking jobs overseas has jumped 20% this year compared with a year...
...unprecedented behavioral truthfulness; heedlessly, he challenged the blandness and piety of the times. If you were young with pretensions to hipness, he seemed to speak your thoughts. And he drove the old Eisenhower crowd nuts. But what we read then as rebelliousness was really confusion. Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother -- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous -- and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict. Elia Kazan, the director who did the most to shape Brando's work, once said, "He's uncertain of himself and he's passionate, both at the same time...
...years, the rating board's chief arbiter of explosives and orifices was Richard Heffner, routinely described as one of Hollywood's most powerful men because the Stones and Scorseses had to tailor their visions to his stern standards. He recently retired from the job and was succeeded by Richard Mosk, 55, a prominent Los Angeles lawyer whose father is a justice of the California Supreme Court. This month Mosk's rating board slapped two Miramax films with an NC-17. On the basis of these decisions, the Heffner era may soon be regarded as an age of enlightenment...