Word: reptilian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dealing with a Raging Reptile. First of all, control your own reptilian response. Do not counterattack, and never flee. If the dinosaur attacks during a meeting, try gazing calmly at the beast. Co-workers will remember the outburst, not the reason for it. If the dinosaur is your boss, though, you must either learn to take abuse or make plans to leave. Whatever you do, never call for reinforcements. "A dinosaur whose subordinates have gone over his or her head is the most dangerous lizard in the jungle...
...toting inventor of Nautilus sports equipment, is laird of a Florida estate that includes a runway large enough to land his own Boeing 707; it is used, among other things, to fly in wild animals for medical research. One of them, which Jones proudly shows Packard, is a reptilian rarity: the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity. Nice pet for a man who is a rather awesome rarity himself...
...Pattern, Hammermill Paper and Marshall Field. It is a display that would make many of his corporate victims cringe, especially the many who lost their jobs when companies were restructured as a result. Yet Icahn's headquarters is no temple to fast money, like the vaulted office of the reptilian Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street. Instead, it serves as a model for the unglamorous way he thinks business should be conducted. The only frill in his office is a Persian rug. Icahn manages his frenetic investment ventures with a staff of just eight, who scurry about their nondescript...
...played with reptilian brio by Michael Douglas, he has some of the pile- driving charm of Michael's actor father Kirk in his early gangster roles. As it happens, the lizardly Gekko is a potential father figure for sly Fox; the other is Bud's dad, a working-class hero who is a mechanic at the small airline that Gekko may soon devour. The elder Fox is played by Charlie Sheen's own dad Martin; and to complete the motif, Stone has dedicated Wall Street (as he did Salvador) to his stockbroker father, who died two years ago. The entire...
Richard Nixon, on the other hand, had aptly demonstrated his scheming slyness in numerous productions before undertaking his final masterpiece. In Checkers, You Won't Have Dick Nixon to Kick Around Anymore, and his documentary classic, To Kill the 22nd Amendment, Nixon developed an acute sense of reptilian manipulation...