Word: bankbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting with Brando in Los Angeles. When they arrived, the green suitcase had been forgotten. "Maybe the people on Krypton should look like bagels," said Brando. Salkind, who is edgy at the best of times, suppressed his hysteria as he envisioned his project, his reputation and his bankbook being swallowed by some great blobbish bagel. "I was almost banging the knee of Dick, begging him to say something," he recalls. Finally Donner interjected that all the kids, including Brando's own, who had read the comic books would know that Superman's father was not a bagel. Brando...
...finance, and The Man Who Loved Children (1940), a chronicle of domestic agony that Clifton Fadiman once described as "Little Women rewritten by a demon." The author's tone has mellowed, however. As Mrs. Trollope, the only character who manages to free herself from the bondage of the bankbook, observes, "People suffer and we call them names; but all the time they are suffering. I know I am not clever: it's partly because I cannot believe that life is meant to be ugly...
Eyes shut, up on stage, Reverend Ike is having a vision: "I see myself . . . successful-prosperous-with money-and now, in my imagination, I open my . . . bankbook. Wowwwww! Gee. I paid all my bills and still I have that . . . terrific balance. Boy . . . that's a sharp car . . . It rides so easily: zooop! And now, here I am . . . on a . . . vacation. Here I am, on this beautiful beach . . . the water . . . coool . . . and later . . . room service? You have any good steaks down there? Yes . . . send up a nice T-bone . . . and a nice salad . . . and . . . a strawberry shortcake...
Some bank. The bankbook is called The Semen Depositor's Handbook. Along with it comes a brown glass bottle, for deposits. "No appointment is necessary," says the handbook, adding, in capital letters, that "IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE EJACULATE SHOULD NOT BE OVER TWO HOURS OLD." Home collection, the booklet notes, is preferred, but the bank also maintains its own ejaculatorium in Manhattan (with, as Executive Vice President Dr. Jerome A. Silbert notes, "various levels of erotica to assist"). What do the bankers do with the deposits? They freeze them. Frozen assets, as it were...
...sell many shares, the price would probably decline. Last week, when he announced plans to dispose of 900,000 of his 8,500,000 E.D.S. shares for more cash to finance Du Pont, the price fell 7¾ points, to 66. "Maybe I should have waved my bankbook in the air instead," says Perot ruefully. "I have $30 million in cash, and I just won't sell stock at a ridiculous price." Perot implied that he will refuse to sell the shares until they rise. He can still draw on a $50 million bank loan arranged by Chase Manhattan...