Word: master
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with Hopper (Alan Alda), the father of bride-to-be Betsy, in bed beside his wife, played by the hilarious Madeline Kahn. He is having a nightmare, and wakes clutching her in fear. Hopper's frequent flights of fancy are whimsically depicted in the film, and Alda is a master of whimsy. But Alda's comic touch is surest when Hopper's line between fact and fantasy blurs...
...feedback from supervisors. In contrast with the baby boomers, who disdained evaluations as somehow undemocratic, people in their 20s crave grades, performance evaluations and reviews. They want a quantification of their achievement. After all, these were the children who prepped diligently for college-aptitude exams and learned how to master Rubik's Cube and Space Invaders. They are consummate game players and grade grubbers. "Unlike yuppies, younger people are not driven from within, they need reinforcement," says Penny Erikson, 40, a senior vice president at the Young & Rubicam ad agency, which has hired many recent college graduates. "They prefer short...
Already this year three managers have been asked to seek challenges elsewhere in the private sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer...
...nice touch is the Satan-worshipping cab driver (Raynor Scheine). He just oozes gross, and his face-slapping foolishness is so funny it could raise the dead. It's pleasantly surprising to hear someone shout, "O! Evil master, I am at your command!" in a Bill Cosby movie...
...Some say that Justice William Brennan is the court's master politician. As leader of the court's shrinking liberal wing, he manages to muster more majorities for liberal results than one might expect...