Word: fizzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prices are up, but so is consumption in the fizz...
...child she had virtually abandoned. She has two friends, a ne'er-do-well actor and homosexual (James Coco) and a wealthy woman desperately afraid of aging (Joan Hackett). They are all self-pitiers and nonstop talkers, mostly in a manner that might be called show-biz fizz, a stylization that works all right for Simon onstage, but seems on the naturalistic screen an inhuman strain. This is especially so since most of his zingers are not as funny as the writer thinks they are and distinctly not worth the body English the players put on them. They...
...strong stock market, up more than 20% since April, has put most of the fizz in the new issues. Last week the jump in the prime rate to 19% helped cause a 37-point decline in the Dow Jones industrial average to 956.23. Even so, says Robert Blakely of Wall Street's Morgan Stanley: "People can again participate in a stock issue and see a reasonable appreciation quickly...