Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sutherland feels that Harvard Square has been transformed into "a different world." She says students seem to buy more now, "and they seem more interested in art and in having things...
...enough to make John Cougar Mellancamp cry "Oh Boy." If he sees the new Ford ad, he might let out "Oh Buick." Although "It's So Easy (To Buy Tercel)," it is not easy to listen to these rock and roll classics remade and then overplayed. Roll Over Buddy Holly...
When Australian Raider Robert Holmes a Court spent more than $800 million to buy 9.6% of Texaco's stock for an average of $37 a share this year, many Wall Streeters applauded his gutsy vote of confidence in the bankrupt oil giant's chances for recovery. But after the October stock crash, Holmes a Court faced a severe cash squeeze. Sensing a distress sale, another renowned raider, TWA Chairman Carl Icahn, entered the picture last week. TWA bought about half of Holmes a Court's stake in Texaco for $348 million, or just $29 a share. The Australian's loss...
...penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls in a cabaret but ogle one another; in some still lifes, the flowers and vegetables acquire a nudging suggestiveness. Sigmund Freud was so much spoken of in this milieu that, Writer Susan Glaspell complained, "you could not go out to buy a bun without hearing of someone's complex...
Weekly's secret is her desire to take her savings, hoarded over many years of sweeping and scrubbing, and buy some land where she can spend the rest of her days in peace. Her problem is the arrival of Nastasya Torben, an imperious Russian emigre and former employer, newly widowed, who has unaccountably moved into the confines of Weekly's room and responsibility. After years of cultivating solitude and independence, the Newspaper of Claremont Street must confront disquieting impulses toward generosity. "Pore old Narsty," Weekly thinks about her disconsolate and unwanted roommate, and wonders how she can set herself free...