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...used up my credibility. Our pitch out here in the '50s was that this was a once-in-a-lifetime hard bite. We twisted some arms then. We'd say to a student who had had a scholarship, 'Look, Harvard helped you out, now you help Harvard out,'" he says...
Other changes have also helped to take the bite out of union demands. Chafin has improved internal communication through a new organizational structure and monthly plenary staff meetings. Though the chain of command structure still remains in place, complaints do, on the whole, manage to filter to the top. For example, late May, a group of women within the department complained that they were not being treated professionally by the overwhelmingly male force. Chafin says he held a meeting with a core group of the staff to correct the situation immediately because, he says, "I thought it was an extremely...
...phonetic rendering of woof ticket, the pronunciation is correct, but rather than being a "wolf ticket (meaning a challenge to fight), it is a "woof ticket (meaning a bluff). One often hears the term woofin' to mean that someone is in a sense barking, not yet committed to bite. Thus an inferior athletic team "sells woof tickets," trying to psych out its opponents. The superior team, confident of its ability, "buys all woof tickets...
...entirely inhabited by knaves and fools; Harris even drags in a barking Germanic housekeeper (Inga Swenson) who would be more appropriate to Hogan 's Heroes. The restrained Guillaume is a refreshing antidote to the caricatured blacks one normally finds in TV comedy, but this series needs political bite and sharper writing to prevent its captive audience from nodding...
...both are in her curriculum now that Hack, 31, has replaced Kate Jackson in the trio of Charlie's Angels alongside Veterans Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith. Artfully imitating her own earlier life, Hack will play a Seven Sisters seraph named Tiffany Welles. As such, she has to bite the Angel dust from time to time. In one early scene, for instance, Hack is overpowered by hired killers on a Mexican island; Ladd and Smith, of course, rescue her before the final commercials. Hack at least needed no lessons in how to look stunning when the Angels pause...