Word: chris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chris Mortenson, 31, who develops land in Montana and San Diego, buys one of the auction's truly great pieces, a stained-glass dome originally made for a San Francisco Elks' hall. He pays $90,000 but has no special plans...
...underwriters' latest loss began with a promotion by Charles ("Chris") Christopher, now 33, a Dallas sharpie who honed his selling skills peddling encyclopedias and waterbeds in his teens, and then created Surety Industries, a computer leasing firm. The business worked this way: Surety bought computers from manufacturers. It financed the purchases with multimillion-dollar loans from banks, using the computers themselves as collateral. Then Surety leased the computers to corporations or government agencies. Typically, the leasing contract is for seven years, with the proviso that the customer can break it after three or four years. Before 1974 the banks...
...defunct Animal House sitcoms. Through it all, Murray smiles and forges ahead, but his big riffs have been edited down to frantic bursts of mugging. Even worse is the single attempt to capitalize on his personal warmth: an interminable subplot about the friendship between Murray and a shy camper (Chris Makepeace) is so mawkishly presented that it takes on an unintended air of homosexual romance. As Murray himself might put it on Saturday Night Live, Meatballs is the work of knuckleheads...
What, then, are these atrocities performed upon Shakespeare's defenseless classic? First, Sellars has combined the roles of Leonato and Friar Francis into a new character named "Monsieur Love" (Chris Clemenson)--not a mortal sin, since the new character lives up to his fabricated name by playing matchmaker, always presiding over some new combination of lovers, and since Clemenson plays the part with a consistently benign, endearing manner...
Annabel, the flirtatious blond, ends up as a buyer for Bloomingdale's; Daphne, the Golden Girl, hides her epilepsy from her friends, marries a Harvard jock and has a mongoloid daughter; Chris, the shy romantic, marries a homosexual; Emily, the rich Jewish girl, dreams of med school and settles down as a doctor's wife...