Word: successor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: After yesterday's public trashing by AT&T of outgoing president John Walters, TIME's Daniel Kadlec says the company's normally patient investors are growing restless. "CEO Bob Allen can't decide whether he's going to retire or stay. He can't decide on a successor. He has big merger plans (with Bell company SBC Communications), which the government won't let him carry out. Now he's coming out and saying, 'The guy I picked isn't smart enough for the job.' There's lots of room for investors to wonder whether this company will...
...Union, scooping up precious military secrets from Russians for a song. So far, the boys working the Lubyanka hotline say the response has been fantastic. Several hundred "interesting" phone calls (as well as a few "psychologically abnormal" ones) have poured in since Nikolai Kovalyov, head of the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service, went public in a recent televised appeal...
...latest, but surely not the last, case in point is Speed 2: Cruise Control, unworthy successor to the last action movie that ran as much on wit as it did on special effects. That film was in touch, however goofily, with some of our everyday anxieties--a runaway bus on a screwed-up freeway is not entirely beyond our ken. At the very least we can imagine being caught in the resulting traffic...
...right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's romantic comedy, the winner of 13 Japanese Academy Awards, at times teeters dangerously close to the excesses of another Miramax crowd pleaser, Strictly Ballroom. The film has such a weakness for the easy incongruity (short men dancing with tall women--isn't that hilarious?) that it could almost be Australian...
Hopefully for the Crimson, the team that Costin Scalise took farther than anyone before her, can continue to blossom under her hand-picked successor...