Word: distresse
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...Mayor Feinstein prided herself on being a hands-on administrator, often to the distress of other officials. When a foul-up occurred, she was apt to respond with a blistering dressing down or at times even a bout of temper behind closed doors. Once she summoned police chief Cornelius Murphy to her office posthaste...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
Succinctly put, Giering's voice is beautiful. She displays amazing range and feeling, perfectly conveying the emotional distress of the troubling lyrics. But the piano accompaniment in this piece is too heavy, at times nearly burying Giering's voice. The piano is chronic fault in Parents, Lovers, and Other Problems, though in some sequences it is a less major distraction...
...turning them around. Sam Zell, chairman of Chicago-based Itel Corp. (1989 revenues: $2 billion), is raising up to $1 billion for a fund that would acquire firms at fire-sale prices. Says he: "Anytime you have a period of excess, you're going to have a period of distress that follows. Our sole purpose is to buy good companies with bad balance sheets. Our goal is to restructure their finances and come out the other end with a viable company." Zell is hardly alone in his ambition. Texas investor Thomas Kelly II and several partners plan to launch...
...fine lips. So when, as rookie cop Megan Turner, she is asked why a pretty, peaceable woman would care to be a New York City police officer, Curtis smiles as she replies, "I wanted to shoot people." Since Blue Steel is a weave of police story and lady-in- distress melodrama, she will eventually get that opportunity. Her target will be Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a Wall Street commodities trader whose romantic intensity fascinates Megan at first, before she realizes he is a psychopath. He murders at random and for pleasure; after a kill, he swathes his torso...