Word: crookedness
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The libretto depends too heavily on whether the industrialist will turn crooked to save his neck (anyone can see he will) and on a love match between the baron and the ballerina that ends almost before it has begun. Director- choreographer Tommy Tune provides a pretentious last-minutes ballet between...
While the professor talks about the government's propaganda efforts, his face becomes heavy. His brooding eyes are cast downward, his mouth grows sulky. But not because of the coffee, which he insists is "quite good." What causes the professor to lower his voice to a drone is the presence...
I'm sorry it happened, but I can understand it. You can play games with that. But you're not supposed to be playing games with the others -- not unless you're absolutely crooked.
One type of shady deal was "front-running," in which a broker profits from advance information by trading ahead of a customer's order. A crooked broker might receive an order, for example, to buy 250,000 bu. of soybeans at $5.85 a bu. He could easily execute his own...
Lili Grossman was a former Martha Graham dancer who married an entertainer turned exterminator and raised Phoebe and her sister in the subdued suburban environs of Teaneck, N.J. Phoebe was a shy child. "If you remember," she says, "in high school there were always a couple of kids whose clothes...