Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catch hold of its handlebars. In his passion to board the train, Georgie plays a politician's game; brash and overeager, he lets his ambitions run roughshod over personal relationships. An act and a half and one wife later, metamorphosed into Broadway actor/composer/producer George M. Cohan, he pleads his success: "I'm not just on that train, I own it," he says...
...Samuel Johnson who described opera as "an exotic and irrational entertainment." No one exemplifies that early diagnosis more than Caldwell. Her success story is anything but logical or coherent. Her energy would be impressive for a basketball star; for a beach ball of a woman, it is phenomenal. Her friend Beverly Sills describes Sarah's voice as "Ezio Pinza imitating a woman," but she can sweet-talk almost anybody out of, and into, anything...
...accidentally shot in the back. In 1969 he had a major cancer operation. "I have apprehended death. It releases vitality." Now he is pacing himself like a champion aiming for a final thrust at supremacy. "I hate being called 'in fashion.' I've earned my success," he says. 'I've been 22 years in this business, 18 of them by the generosity of my bank manager, without whom I'd have been a bank manager...
...property" and the most curious and enigmatic criminal case of recent years had to excite some schlockmeister, and so we have El Cheapo Production's version of the book to contend with. The picture, featuring Judith-Marie Bergan, started out aiming for the coveted X rating, essential to success in the pornfields, then raised its sights. Its more graphically depicted sexual grapplings went into the trim barrel, an R rating was obtained, and it is no longer necessary to sneak off to some cinematic red-light district to see the film...
...years Slater had known only success. Trained as an accountant, he got his first break when he answered a newspaper ad placed by a Danish businessman whose English companies were struggling. Slater straightened them out and moved on, eventually becoming the right-hand man of Lord Stokes, then head of Leyland Motors. There Slater developed a keen eye for companies whose assets were worth more than the value of their issued stock...