Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power struggle between the country's financial giants. The battle is as much psychological as political. The legislation, which also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was enacted to protect the public from irresponsible banks like those that invested depositors' savings in highly speculative securities prior to the Great Crash of 1929. As a result, the separation of commercial and investment-banking functions by Glass-Steagall still has tremendous populist appeal. But in official Washington, as Fed Chairman Volcker put it in Senate testimony last January, opposition to giving commercial banks access to the investment-banking area "is almost entirely...
During an otherwise sedate tea party in the second act of Pygmalion, Peter O'Toole rises from a chair, stumbles into a fireplace screen with a jangling crash, whirls around to recover his balance, ensnares and dances with a grandfather clock, then ends by flinging himself into another chair and reclining silkily with a look of nothing having happened. The bare stage direction exists in George Bernard Shaw's text, but the moment -- and the + character judgment it reflects -- is in large part O'Toole's contribution to his literally smashing, if belated, Broadway debut at age 54, after nearly...
Other students at Wednesday's crash course agreed that they had come in part to pay homage to their grandparents' way of life...
...phew! As played by Kim Basinger, Nadia lacks what farce needs, irresistible nuttiness. She is simply a whiner. Director Edwards (The Party, S.O.B.) is a great farceur, and he has plenty of classic comic conventions to play with: elegant cars and parties to crash, a decorous wedding to subvert. But glum Nadia defeats him. A film promising knockout knockabout comedy finally seems merely knocked...
...government and a reminder to the U.S. that shoring up democracies in Central America is neither cheap nor painless. Drawing further attention to the price of the U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran war, the CIA announced last week that one of its employees had been killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern part of the country. Though the CIA did not identify him, the dead man was believed to be Richard Krobock, 31, of Quincy, Mass...