Word: aubreys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those high interest rates have paralyzed American financial markets. Stock prices have fallen to their lowest level in 15 months, and corporate bond values are reaching record depths. Says David Jones, chief economist for the Wall Street securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The feeling in the market is horrible. Prices just keep falling. It's utter frustration. Hopelessness...
...growth. Last week those Wall Street financiers put their money where their minds were. Fearing that Reagan's program would mean even higher interest rates, they heavily sold stocks and drove down bond prices. Said David Jones, chief economist for the New York-based Government securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The market is saying, 'Don't give me a lot of supply-side economic theory about what happens when you cut taxes. Don't tell me that in theory people should save more, and that in the end everything will be all right. Just...
...Days of Wine and Roses, A Shot in the Dark), he suffered an equal number of flops (Darling Lili, Wild Rovers, The Carey Treatment). These pictures, he insists, were sabotaged from conception to cutting room by studio production chiefs: Robert Evans, of Paramount, where Lili was made, and James Aubrey, of MGM, which financed the others...
...AUBREY BEARDSLEY...
From his black-trimmed London studio, Aubrey Beardsley transformed book illustration into high art. His use of curves and filigrees had the delicacy and tensile strength of Victorian wrought iron, but his subjects-fauns, satyrs, naked slaves-earned him a reputation of fearful decadence. Even in the prurient "yellow nineties," when young men dragged live lobsters down Pall Mall on silken leashes, Beardsley was singled out. "A monstrous orchid," Oscar Wilde proclaimed him, a judgment unchallenged until...