Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are long lines these days at the Sack Cheri theater, for the new English comedy The Wrong Box. Hordes are plunking down their two dollars gleefully for what has come to be known as "the new Peter Sellers movie." Except, of course, that it isn't. The Sellers name is advertised loudly enough, and Sellers is in the movie, but his appearance is limited to a quick six minutes...
...policemen will spend anywhere from a few minutes to an hour relaxing in the box-sized living room of a man who neighborhood residents simply call "Winehead." A blind man with a wife and family to support, Winehead sells liquor in his home. His wife buys it at one of the "state stores" supervised by Alabama's beverage control commission. On Sundays or late in the evening, when the state stores are closed, Winehead's business picks up. The profit averages $60 per week -- split 50-50 with the two cops on the three-to-eleven shift...
...neon sculpture seems deceptively simple at first glance, sculpture through optics appears hopelessly complex. Mary Bauermeister contributes a lens box, or tri-level arrangement of lenses and optical patterns, some cemented to roating discs. Notes and sketches show that she visualized a rough relief map of her work before she began, and then worked out the specific effects as she went along. The final product is satisfying in its complexity but like all the works at the Rigelhaupt it demands time to be appreciated...
...Broadway potboiler, Leary's new show ought to be socko box office, as Variety might put it, although nabes in the sticks will be better off running Tarzan instead. For acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer...
However, an increasing number of short sellers do not have to buy to cover because they already own the shares. About one-third of all short selling is merely "selling against the box," a device to delay tax payments. Instead of cashing in the stock that they wish to dispose of, sophisticated traders often go short in it and cover by delivering their own stock on Ian. 2, thereby putting Off tax payments on their profits for twelve months. "Selling against the box" usually causes the short interest to rise late in the year and fall in January. Short interest...