Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, are more likely to open up when a therapist brings a dog along. Carol Antoinette Peacock, a psychologist in Watertown, Mass., starts treatment of new adolescent patients with an introduction to her dog Toffy. "It helps them to trust me," says Peacock, who finds that patients sometimes express their feelings through the animal. "They'll say, 'Your dog looks pretty sad,' meaning 'I'm pretty...
...that Jefferies helped a customer, unnamed in the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe, manipulate the price of a public stock offering. The stock, also unnamed but widely believed to be Fireman's Fund, was languishing last May in the days just before the insurance company's owner, American Express, was planning to offer more of the shares to the public. Jefferies is accused of briefly boosting the market price -- and thus illegally rigging the price of the new shares -- by buying blocks of Fireman's stock right before the offering. The New York Times, quoting lawyers close...
...score is blasting so loudly that it vibrates spectators right out of their chairs, and its 27-member cast is whizzing by on roller skates at speeds of up to 30 m.p.h., attired in what looks like a cross between medieval jousting costumes and high-tech robot gear, Starlight Express is surely one of the most astonishing spectacles in the annals of the stage. If likely to baffle and frustrate regular theatergoers, it may also enthrall brand-new audiences, especially those under the age of reason. Inspired in equal measure by the roller derby, Coney Island fun fairs...
...American Express Optima card will undoubtedly add to the intense pressure being put on banks and department stores to reduce their interest rates. Across the U.S., public officials and consumer groups are angry that credit-card charges have stayed high in recent years while other lending rates have sharply dropped. Two bills have been introduced in Congress that would establish national ceilings for credit-card interest. Six states -- Arkansas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin -- already limit that interest...
Morricone may express occasional dissatisfaction, as when he admits, "I feel antipatico. My face, when I see myself in a mirror, I don't like it. It's all wrong." Modesty is never absent ("I always repeat myself -- each composer has a musical calligraphy"), but self-defense comes in handy too, as with suggestions that parts of The Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they...