Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time in scuba gear under 80 ft. of water. Apart from some nasty jellyfish stings, the actress's worst moment came during a subaqueous scene with Co-Star Nick Nolte that called for her to lose her mouthpiece and head for the surface. "His bubbles came up from beneath me and I couldn't see anything," she recalled. "I kept trying to find the damn regulator and for a couple of seconds I thought, 'Uh-oh, this is a damn silly way to go.' " Adds Bisset unnecessarily: "I'm not a very good swimmer...
Soon New York's Chemical Bank, the nation's sixth largest (assets: $23.9 billion), is expected to announce a plan that will enable checking-account customers to buy or sell stocks at bank order desks at commission rates far beneath those charged to the typical small investor by most Wall Street brokers. For a commission of about $35, Chemical's customers would be able to buy or sell up to 500 shares of any stock, with the rate rising to $60 for 1,000share orders. Thus the commission for buying 100 shares...
...cards. The elaborate fleecing system involved observers in the attic who peered through peepholes to read the cards of the players. They then flashed coded electronic signals to a member of the ring seated at the table, who picked up the messages on equipment he wore on a girdle beneath his clothes...
Those precious originals he displayed on the runway beneath the chandeliers did not vanquish all critics. Halston, the monarch of American design, wondered, "Where will a woman wear...
...millionaire, world-renowned and, at the peak of his profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most marriages. Yet beneath the patina of assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with a nervous breakdown...