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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...
...quickly goosed me. I was so outraged that by the time I could get my Spanish straight enough to curse him, the three were several yards past me, laughing uproariously as the flying ace was congratulated by the other two, as if he had just shot down the Red Baron...
With an opening press run of 1.5 million, to be distributed initially in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest, the Star represents a major invasion by Australian Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch. Now 42, Murdoch inherited a small Australian daily from his father in 1953 and built it into a worldwide publishing empire: eleven magazines and more than 80 newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. Murdoch's major acquisitions include Britain's Peeping-Tom Sunday News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) and the London Sun (circ. 3,000,000), which was failing until...