Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limited to $750 million. This raises the chances that Congress will give the company more, probably in the form of federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had asked for $1.2 billion. One worry: Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the company's management consultants, suggested that even $1.2 billion might not be enough. This week Chrysler will announce a third-quarter loss of about $460 million, more than double its previous record deficit of $207 million in the second quarter. The full-year loss could top $1 billion...
...Orleans is a conservative town, its bankers an inbred bunch who do not cotton to outsiders. And, as Canizaro remarks, "for many years New Orleans was not pro-Italian." He put a $5,000 deposit on a downtown plot, then tried to borrow more to buy it. "There was enough income coming in from the property to service the debt if only somebody would lend me the money." The Establishment would not. Finally, he found a small bank to make the loan, and he started prospering. Canizaro...
...half cheers! Two and three quarters? Not enough, in these cheerless times. Let's say three cheers and a quark for Head over Heels, an eccentric little comedy about what zoologists call pair bonding. The trouble with the pair on view is that only half of it, an unsteady young man named Charles (John Heard), is bonded. The other half has gone back to her husband. She is Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), a pretty and appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that...
...before Laura took fright and moved out. That was a year ago, but Charles is still zonked. The phone rings and... no; it is only his mother (Gloria Grahame), a withered vamp whose insulation has started to fray, and who flirts coyly with suicide whenever she feels that not enough attention is being paid to her, calling to say that she has taken sleeping pills again and is sinking in the bath water. No matter. The logic of Charles' obsession tells him that the next call will be from Laura, who will say to him that...
...Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, American Mercury, American Magazine, This Week, Woman's Home Companion, Country Gentleman, Scribner's magazine. Faulkner received rejections from all of these journals, some now defunct, as well as from a few survivors like The New Yorker, but he also published enough to buy precious time for his novels...