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...fold her napkin. It seemed to take forever." The scene is too personal, and the evaluations too subjective--"It seemed to take forever," doesn't work as well as "It took her half a minute" would. If one is to be a carpenter, all the corners must be flush...
...goodness with impossible evil?and emerges triumphant, soaring with spirit. In the process it displays the grandest theatrical techniques, affirms the Tightness of love and friendship, revives pleasures and poignancies that have all but vanished from modern narrative art. At a time when Broadway is as busy and financially flush as it has been in decades (see following story), the coming of Nickleby demonstrates that it can also accommodate the highest quality. The R.S.C. has fashioned an epic of feeling and intelligence ? a vertiginous celebration of life upon the splendid stage...
...Texaco Canada Ltd., forcing down their values by an average of 15% during the first month alone after the program was announced. Moreover, Canadian companies, in cooperation with Canadian banks, have hit upon a technique for forcing the U.S. companies to sell out at the depressed market prices. Flush with seemingly inexhaustible credit from the banks, the Canadian companies have been buying up big blocks of stock in American firms, then offering them back to the U.S. companies in return for their Canadian oil and gas holdings...
Even for the cash-flush oil industry, employees of Mitchell Energy & Development Co. near Houston enjoy some unusually lucrative benefits. Mitchell will finance homes for new workers through its own mortgage company at subsidized rates for up to six years. Executives marked for promotion can receive stock options worth as much as $500,000-without investing a penny of their own-that are fully redeemed by the company in six years. Some top employees may also receive shares in a company-sponsored oil-well-drilling program. In fact, working at Mitchell has become so profitable that many employees would...
...villain, a spooky underground grotto containing an Olympic-sized pool complete with burning water and oozing ceiling. The little baby dragons, who display a revolting appetite for freshly killed princess and give Galen some initial resistance, may provoke more than a few people to go home and flush their salamanders and iguanas down the toilet while there's still time...