Word: creep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether it is for God or for the flesh, however, this book is full of fervor. There's a lot of preaching, but sanctimony can't even creep in the back door. Richard's descriptions of an earlier search for the Lord, when he forsook show business to study the Bible at Oakwood College, are rich not only in regret but in comedy, much of it knowing. "The elders didn't like me taking my yellow Cadillac on the campus," Richard confesses. "They had discovered that I was a homosexual, and I resented the discovery . . . They...
Despite the underlying strength of the recovery, which Brittan compared with the "golden age" before the first oil crisis in 1973, the slow upward creep of unemployment-now at 12.5%-has not halted. The problem, according to Brittan, is that labor is taking the fruits of the economic upswing in the form of higher pay rather than in more jobs. The spurt in corporate profits, up 25% last year and expected to continue rising, could gradually encourage employers to hire more workers, Brittan believes...
Additionally, though Arnold's initial unwillingness to communicate to anyone but his wise old grandfather (Wilford Brimley) is ostensibly the central issue of the film, partially developed side-plots frequently creep in. The exploits and marital problems of Arnold's uncle Andy, for example, occupy a significant part of the movie, for no apparent reason other than to ultimately send Arnold on a cross-country bus journey to the glittery world of Las Vegas. It is there that Arthur begins to open up express his emotions, and in a moving, if somewhat contrived, scene aboard a bus, Arnold (Jason Presson...
...issue is emerging now because executive pay, which is usually disclosed in the spring just before corporate annual meetings, is moving up again. During the recession, corporate raises slowed to a creep. But now that many companies have returned to profitability, big corporate raises are back. In fact, some of these are pushing executive incomes over the million-dollar summit. But, of course, it is difficult to make meaningful generalizations about salary levels for all U.S. corporations...
...there is more. Greenfeld's antihero, Larry Lazar, is not a conventionally Philistine tycoon, trampling on the souls of artists. He is an artist, an acclaimed creator of humanistic films who just happens to be, personally, a creep. He would rather betray a friend than lose a deal. When Lazar feels a charitable impulse and gives money to the less fortunate, he connives to get the studio to pay him back. And he is not merely greedy. He is, as a colleague remarks, "an aesthetic hustler" who looks upon every intimate-even his unlamented mother-as movie "material...