Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this 70-minute Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau, but gags about man's obsessive relations with machines still work in a Walkman world...
...officials began to investigate Saranow's possible role. The probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...
...buried in his own writing, Friedrich sometimes dons the mantle of literary agent. Impressed by the reporting that Denise Worrell, then TIME's show-business correspondent, had done on celebrities from Michael Jackson to George Lucas, he offered to spend his lunch hours showing Worrell's work to publishers. A flattered if skeptical Worrell said, "Great!" then forgot about it. One day she came home to find a message: "I think I just sold your book. Call me." Worrell's Icons: Intimate Portraits was published last month by the Atlantic Monthly Press. That's a happy ending Hollywood would approve...
Professional interpreters are among the first to admit the sad state of translation in the courts. They are often relegated to clerical status, with low pay, and asked to work without time to prepare. Says New York interpreter Gabriel Felix: "We could use a central administrator, dictionaries and in some courts a place to hang our coats, a chair and a desk...
Porn's big profits ensure that Hurlbut will never lack for work. The station wagon is now deep in the piney woods northeast of the city as he searches vainly for the site of another nude bar, one that he has chased from two other prospective locations. "We'll get him sooner or later," he chuckles. On the drive home, he wheels up to a fading stucco relic aside the four-lane. Shut down long ago, the nude club's blue canopy still flaps amid the weeds and litter, and a garish neon sign towers skyward. "Twenty warrants for prostitution...