Word: yes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also happy? Yes and no. He finds that adulation is a kind of prison, his young fans' love not far removed from hostility. When he was shooting Saturday Night in Brooklyn, the teen-agers would try to coax him out of his trailer as they might a caged dog-by rocking it back and forth...
...seven or eight times earnings. Bernstein, writing in November's Institutional Investor, a trade magazine, goes on to say that the experience of investors during the past decade "has probably been the worst in this century -and perhaps the worst in stock market history." Worse than the 1930s? Yes, says Bernstein, when inflation is cranked in. Ninety cents invested in Dow Jones blue chips a dozen years ago is worth only 440 now, a 50% depreciation. Two-thirds of new issues brought to market in the past four years are selling below their offering prices. Shares in Colorado-based...
...caution Harvard athletics: do not let the desire to win, the desire to bring talented athletes to Harvard, get in the way of the truth. Yes, tell ballplayers about Harvard, try to convince them to attend, but do not paint too rosy a picture. Those poor visitors must still eat in our dining halls, sleep on our couches, face those that are not all that impressed with football players. That's the way it is here and if they don't like it, they shouldn't come here...
...turned out to be something of an autocrat, who insists on loyalty at every level. One of her first acts was to replace the staff at the Governor's mansion, including some servants who had been there for years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates all of them." Her audiences are no longer composed of students, but she treats them like students. At the Western Governors conference in Anchorage this fall, she would clasp her hands and begin to lecture, almost as if she expected other Governors...
...defendant called it a bum rap. Yes, he had fondled the buttocks of a woman, without her consent, on a rush-hour New York subway car. But no, it could not be considered sexual abuse. His argument: state legal precedent on sexual abuse lists "breast" and "genital areas" as private parts, but excludes the buttocks...