Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYERS. Anne and Will of Stratford-on-Avon have a very bad marriage. She nags; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this dubious material, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-though one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help with her Bronx-housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...
According to the SEC, the bad news was reported to 15 mutual funds and other big institutional customers as early as June 20 - four days before Douglas an nounced its troubles. During that period Douglas stock dropped from $90½ a share to $69; the investment companies liquidated or sold short their holdings, thus saving or earning a total of $4,500,000. Merrill Lynch was paid for its early-warning services, contended the SEC, by the commissions it collected on the institutional trading. And even as the big organizations were dumping Douglas, Merrill Lynch continued to buy the stock...
Lardner said he would rather forget Come the Revolution, a political satire. "If my play were produced, besides getting bad reviews it would probably provoke a lawsuit from Mrs. Onassis," he said...
...cliche might have been more entertaining, particularly given the skill of the cast. But this adaptation of an ancient: novel by Louis L'Amour tends to take itself seriously; consequently all sorts of pedantic accusations can be levelled at it: there are no dramatic climaxes, the dialogue is bad, the color stinks, the film is barely entertaining--little things like that...
When the Beatles sing good night it is to "Everybody Everywhere," and it is true because we are all caught up in this fierce love-hate (but mostly love) affair that we will never be able to explain to our children. Mad records and glad records and bad records and sad records and one day it will all end. But it hasn't yet, I don't think. Where is the foolhardy soul who dares to admit that he thought in 1965 that the Beatles were all washed-up? --SALAHUDDIN I. IMAM