Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Comrades and George Melies's Adventures of M. Le Baron Sunday, March...
While the wheel has been used for 5000 years, the bicycle was not developed until the last century. Will Baron von Drais de Sauerbach ever go down in history with Henry Ford? God knows he deserves to. The Baron's 1816 bicycle was a little crude, but it developed quickly. By 1884 it had evolved into a 21.5 pound cruising machine a point beyond which little improvement has been possible (today most bikes still weigh over 30 pounds...
Shepard, Putney and Cox is a high Wasp law firm, dominated, in an odd way, by Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of merging the law firm with an even bigger and more profitable factory. Auchincloss reveals the personalities of the various partners, associates, and wives. They come across as a pretty average group of people; people who may work a little harder, suffer from a few more neuroses and have a little...
...Baron Nikolai, a suitor of one of the sisters, says "How well I understand this craving for work. I've never done a stroke of work in my life." In Olivier's production the line is tragicomic. In the City Center production it is a little joke--some sort of Freudian slip--that only a foolish and insensitive man would make. Natasha, the wife of the sisters' brother, steals a lot of laughs in the City Center version by being so unremittingly vain and petty, but she's stealing from the sensitivity of the play...
...Life here is all 'arse up and head down,' " says Crew Member Patrick Baron. Roughneck Leo Cariou, a veteran of 14 years in oilfields round the world, explains: "It's part adventure, part backbreaking toil, a big part loneliness. We are the adventurers of the energy business, and the oceans are our last frontier to exploit." That is a notion not often expressed here on the barge; the relentless search for oil affords time for little but the mind-numbing and muscle-aching work that grinds along in hopes of the big payoff...