Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Melato does acceptably as the lusty, Latin, sexually frustrated wife, but she fails to being much originality to this fairly conventional role. As character actors, Warden and Kiel deliver their roles in the usual manner: Warden as the gruff but lovable paternal figure, Kiel (remember Jaws in the James Bond movies?) as the superhuman giant who picks up and throws lots of very heavy objects. Kiel shines only briefly when, in a moment of vanity, he prances like a stud to the tune of Frankie Valli's "Walk Like...
...miners are lying low. Kerr-McGee has secured a temporary injunction against picketing at the Galatia site. So far 20 miners identified from photographs as participants in the August attack have been arrested on charges of criminal damage to property, mob action or aggravated battery. (All are free on bond.) Kerr-McGee President James G. Randolph, 51, a retired Air Force major general, flew to Galatia from corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City and ordered work resumed. The chain-link fence has been rebuilt. A score of bright yellow bulldozers, scrapers and earthmovers are growling back and forth, tossing up giant...
...loan institutions, an incredible total of more than $341 billion is sitting in accounts that pay a maximum of 5.5% interest. Those funds could currently be earning about 18% in a money-market account, 14.9% in a six-month savings certificate or 13% in a tax-exempt municipal bond fund. If the 5,000 savings banks and S and Ls in the U.S. suddenly had to start paying comparable interest rates on passbook accounts, many of them would go broke. As it is, an estimated 85% of all S and Ls are losing money because the double-digit interest that...
...upset at this," she says, "you have too much emotional involvement in your pet." Harvey Mindess, an authority on the psychology of humor, sniffs: "101 Uses proves that there are a lot of ten-year-olds in the buying public." Mindess speculates that Simon Bond was probably once "rejected by a voluptuous Siamese...
...this may only be the beginning. Bond's publisher received an approving letter from an organization on the Arabian gulf known as the Bahrain Dead Cat Society (slogan: FELIX MORTE). The society's letterhead notes that it is affiliated with the North American Dead Dog Society, the Kenyan Institute for Crushed Aardvarks and the Fiji Squashed Squid Squad...