Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leplastrier (the luminous and spunky Cate Blanchett), also a gambling addict. For her, gambling is a way of asserting herself against gentility and separating herself from some of the money she has inherited but doesn't really want. Equally unlikely for a woman of her time, she is an industrialist. That church is a product of her glass factory, and it is intended as reparation to another clergyman who has been exiled for being seen in her raffish company...
AARON FEUERSTEIN is the George Bailey of the industrialist set. And just as in It's a Wonderful Life, it looks as if it has all worked out swimmingly for the factory owner. When fire gutted Malden Mills in December 1995, Feuerstein decided to rebuild his mill right in Massachusetts, instead of moving it to a cheap labor haven like Mexico or taking the insurance payout and retiring. What's more, he kept all 2,700 staff on the payroll for three months and paid their health insurance for three more. It took nearly two years and an understanding banker...
...cast is as solid as one might expect from the ART. Some of the actors choose to exaggerate the comic tendencies of their characters: Ripley turns the incurable romantic, "Ricky-Ticky-Tavy" Octavius into a singing, simpering, sentimental fool; Jack Willis, in a minor satiric role as an American industrialist buying his way into ancient English titles and estates, makes a caricature of himself with his loud, hearty declamations and zestful crudeness of manner. Geidt lacks Mephistophelian finesse as both Mendoza and Satan, but is nicely balanced by Epstein who is superb as the stiffly and stuffily pompous Ramsden/Statue...
...benefits of cloning technology may be great, but the potential for misuse is beyond frightening. How long before every petty dictator, multimillionaire industrialist, king, queen and drug lord has a clone or two made of himself or herself, then raised in confinement, so that when a heart, lung or kidney gives out, a spare is just a phone call away? How much further will this cheapen human life? STEVE GONTO Savannah, Georgia...
...next day, when a Democratic fund raiser named John Huang requested White House clearance for a Thai industrialist to have coffee with the President, no alarms went off. No one made much of the fact that Dhanin Chearavanont, 57, chairman of the CP Group, is believed to be the largest single foreign investor in China and an economic adviser to Beijing. When an aide to campaign czar Harold Ickes asked "if it would be problematic if this individual met briefly W/ POTUS," the green light came quickly from the NSC: "O.K. by Asia Affairs." Among the 11 NSC officials informed...