Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect, though, the company's position will still be strong. The inevitable new management labor conflict has now been taken out of the bankruptcy courts and into the civil courts, where the superior resources of the firms may be more effectively brought to bear. Filing for bankruptcy now becomes even more of a gamble, and the new opportunity to threaten labor-contract rejection is a fresh chip for management whenever it deals with the unions...
BILLBOARDS. In 1982 Bear, Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, acted as agent for the sale of 45,000 billboards to 534 wealthy investors for $485 million, nearly all of it borrowed. The investors promptly leased them back to the original owner, Broadcaster Metromedia. They are now in the process of rapidly writing off the costs of the billboards. At the end of five years, the plan is to resell them to Metromedia for $645 million, a 33% profit. The outcome: for individual cash investments of $150,000, each investor stands to gain a return in tax savings...
...movie begins cleverly with a story within a story as the father, Win Berry (Beau Bridges) tells his children once more how he and his wife first met. It is here that we are wisked away to a luxurious Maine resort in 1939 and here where we meet the bear, State o' Maine, riding a motorcycle. But all this ends too fast and we are back in the present (sometime in the late '50's) with Berry, his wife Mary (played competently but blandly by Lisa Banes) and their five children. The family lives in a rambling old New England...
...despite one of the opening scenes in which a real live bear rides a motorcycle in circles round a high brow garden party, despite the beautiful surrealistic cinematography in which the New England landscapes are made to look like Maxfield Parrish illustrations, despite some truly good performances (Foster is one of the more forthright and appealing young actresses around) the movie falls as flat as stale champagne...
...start The Hotel New Hampshire, to Vienna where he and the children and his old friend confusingly named Freud start the second Hotel New Hampshire Permanent guests in this home lodge include terrorists, one of whom, Miss Carriage, played by Amanda Plummer, has a very peculiar accent, another who bears a suspicious resemblance to the prep school youth who raped Fanny, Susie the bear--Kinski dressed in a potbelly bear suit (why the sultry Kinski hides in such a suit is never satisfactorily explained), and a pack of German whores...