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...financial markets hate surprises. For that reason Wall Street was even edgier than usual on the eve of a crucial mid-term election that might generate a sudden shake-up in national economic policy. But when the news came from the polls that the Republicans had kept control of the Senate and lost no more House seats than expected the New York Stock Exchange was overwhelmed by relief-and euphoria...
...Weatherman communiqué, and they lack the verve and pullulating fantasy of earlier Fahlstroms. They are participatory posters, meant as ironic distress signals. Granted their bald look, it can still be said that no painter has approached the radical dissatisfactions of the times with a blacker or edgier...
...best sequences of sexual and romantic tension ever caught by a camera, and Scott provides most of them. In one memorable scene, his ex-wife has come to visit him and brings a bag of homemade cookies with her as a peace offering. As the discussion becomes edgier and more hostile, Scott finally pivots around and hurls the bag of cookies at her. The bag explodes against her back, and the cookies fly apart like a fragmentation grenade. It is a moment of powerful artistry for actor as well as director. Not surprisingly, Scott dismisses his portrayal as "pretty...
...criminals go, George Skalla was even edgier than most. He and a friend, Cal Bailey, 44, had come up with what seemed a surefire scheme. For between $2,000,000 and $8,000,000 in ransom, they planned to kidnap Leonard Firestone, 58, one of five sons of the late rubber magnate Harvey Firestone, from his $250,000 home in Beverly Hills. The plot was dangerous enough, but Skalla's real worry was Bailey, an ex-con who had turned respectable and had acquired a $75,000 house and four children. Bailey took over the show, threatened to kill...
...1880s and early 1890s. The army was still licking its wounded pride over Germany's blitz victory of 1870-71. Church and state intermittently sniped at each other. Sixteen Cabinets formed and fell in a dozen years. It was an edgy and suspicious age, and no one was edgier or more suspicious than the staff of the innocuously named Statistical Section, the French army's counterintelligence agency...