Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other companies at a headlong pace. To pay for them, it floated no fewer than ten stock issues in three years, ballooning the number of shares outstanding from 13 million in 1971 to 269 million in May of this year. Between mid-1973 and last December, however, a crash on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and declining confidence in Hutchison wiped out nearly 90% of the value of those shares. Clague was unable to continue tapping the stock market for capital...
...nymph called Life and skeleton in black named Death. In one sequence, Death, reclining on the Brooklyn Bridge, extracts a cigar from his voluminous cape and looks around for a light. He flicks a convenient jet into the path of another airplane and casually lights the stogie from the crash. Eventually, the great green scaly three-mouthed mumbling monster God shows up for the final summing-up, sends Life and Death off to run another planet, and pronounces, "You're on your...
Shirley Knight, as the failed sex symbol, is favored with Patrick's most successful character, her speeches filled with wit and wordplay. Knight speaks rhythmically, very sexually, building up to a climax and descending with a crash. Clive Donner also directs well, maintaining control during the more histrionic moments. Under his direction, physical movements augment the script and rescue the show from tedium...
...plan will have some support in Congress: many Democrats have called for a crash program to develop alternate sources of energy. Presidential Hopeful Henry Jackson of Washington State last week needled Ford by congratulating him on having abandoned the idea that reliance on the free market is the solution of all energy problems. But the plan also faces stiff opposition, and not only from conservatives. Environmentalists fear it will lead to a great expansion of nuclear power, and many Democrats are angered at the thought of giving oil companies the loan guarantees that the Administration has denied to financially pressed...
Elegance v. Disclosure. But then the family fortune was wiped out in the Crash. The town house went and then the unparalleled private museum of Americana. "The dismantling of the museum," Nadelman wrote to a friend in 1937, with his usual reticent dignity, "did also dismantle something in me." The market for his own sculpture slowly caved in. By 1946 the very word elegance-the passion of Nadelman's life and the quality of his sculptures-had become suspect. "Elegance" had nothing to do with social utility, or Freudian disclosures, those ruling interests of a postwar American avantgarde...