Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some regular features, including Jim Henson and his Muppets, from Sesame Street, and Chevy Chase's Weekend Update. Chevy, who started as a writer on the show (see box), is fast becoming its comedy star. He is a tall, conventional-looking young man, who opens a rude and funny parody of the nation's newscasters with "I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not." His news breaks are bizarre: "Vandals broke into the Louvre and attached arms onto the Venus de Milo." His favorite long-running story is: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still seriously...
...addition to Chase, Michaels recruited a core of writers including his own wife Rosie, 29, who had also worked for Tomlin; Michael O'Donoghue, 36, and Anne Beatts, 28, both formerly of the National Lampoon; and Herb Sargent, fiftyish, whose credits include That Was the Week That Was. Their styles are diverse. Their humor is not. Says O'Donoghue: "At some point in your life, you decide to either grow up or look like grownups. We've chosen the latter." Some critics think the show is sophomoric. Replies O'Donoghue: "Sophomoric is just the liberal word...
...still increasing their earnings; Bank of America raised its profits in 1975 by 17%. Citibank's earnings for all 1975 will be up about 10%, but the bank recently disclosed that for the fourth quarter it will report its first decline from a year earlier since 1969. Chase in the third quarter reported earnings a stunning 56% below those for the 1974 period, and New York's Marine Midland, after clearing its books of $25 million in bad debts, expects to report an actual overall loss for the fourth quarter. Marine Midland will also reduce its dividend from...
...which is involved in mortgage banking, leasing and financial consulting, and runs 148 consumer-loan offices in 19 states through its Nationwide Financial Services Corp.) During the 1970s, Citibank has moved from third to second largest bank in the U.S. in terms of assets, elbowing past its traditional rival Chase. There are persistent rumors that some Chase directors are unhappy and would not be sorry to see Chairman Rockefeller leave-though there is no indication that he will. Wriston's reputation, in contrast, continues to grow even among bankers who are made nervous by his expansion-mindedness...
...gigolo are counting on him to lead them to their quarry. The husband has the quintessential bourgeois quality, niceness; he doesn't want the gigolo to die, he just wants his wife back. He stops to talk to the men, tries to persuade them to give up the chase. "Oh, but you don't understand," says their leader, perfectly deadpan. "I represent the Irish Sweepstakes. He has won, and I am trying to notify...