Word: edmond
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...DIED. Edmond O'Brien, 69, stocky, heavy-jowled, Academy Award-winning actor who played tough guys in such film noir classics as The Killers (1946), A Double Life (1948) and D.O.A. (1950), and who later had memorable character roles in Seven Days in May (1964) and The Wild Bunch (1969); of Alzheimer's disease; in Inglewood, Calif. He won an Oscar as best supporting actor for his portrayal of a sycophantic Hollywood press agent in 1954's The Barefoot Contessa...
...dark secret, hidden in the walls of the house permeates the very air. Its force seep, into the minds and the bodies of Miles and Flora, the two unfortunate children. With a clear, sweet soprano voice Flora (Lisa Zeidenberg) sings to her doll and prattles to her governess. Mile (Edmond John Donlon III) appears equally childish and pure. Although he sings rather shakily, not is as boisterous as a high-spirited little boy should be. But he is the center of the evil, and we soon learn that things have been done here that are not good...
...returns and discovered that they were fraudulent. But instead of filing a report with his office, Weiss conducted a phony audit in exchange for the payoff. In November 1980, Nipon made the first of what would be four $50,000 cash payments to another IRS agent, Edmond Costantini, who served as intermediary. In 1982 Costantini paid $15,000 to a third IRS agent so that Nipon's 1980 corporate return would be approved...
...independent financier whose family has been in banking since the Ottoman Empire find happiness working for American Express? The answer seems to be no. In 1983, American Express bought Edmond J. Safra's Trade Development Bank for $520 million in cash and securities. Lebanese-born Safra is one of the world's most respected moneymen. He built a banking empire by giving meticulous attention to the accounts of wealthy Middle Easterners. What better way for American Express's bank to hit world-class status than to hire a world-class banker? Safra was offered the company...
...that the play is unworthy of resuscitation. Edmond Rostand was 29 when he wrote Cyrano; he seasoned this tale of a 17th century cavalier with the dash, sweep, idealism and tireless eloquence of youth. In 1898, when the original French production played London, it arrived like a gust of rose-scented air in the stolid cathedral of naturalism. Proclaimed Critic Max Beerbohm: "Even if Cyrano be not a classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted...