Word: frightener
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...fact that this is another Neil Simon play (for God's sake, how many are there?) should not frighten anyone off. It is one of the New Yorker's earlier works, and Simon, whose own characters have become walking cliches of American situation comedy, gains by the use of Chekov's characters. Each scene in the play is adapted from one of Chekhov's short stories, which means the actors must change character after each scene. This is a big challenge, and the cast, for the most part, meets...
Pickens has never actually acquired a major corporation. His usual style has been to frighten a firm by first investing in it and then proclaiming that he could run the corporation, which invariably dwarfs Mesa in size, better than its current officers. After an often bitter battle, Pickens' harried and outmaneuvered prey frequently sells out for a high price to a friendly rescuer. That leaves Pickens without an acquisition, but with an immense profit on his shares of the company...
...like a typical, affluent suburbanite. He lives with his wife Liba in Westchester County, near New York City, and likes nothing better than to hang around the house on weekends, playing tennis or going for a swim in his pool. While he does not look like someone who would frighten even a PTA board, he is a scourge to the giants of corporate America. Last week newspapers across the U.S. carried full-page ads with the scare headline IS ICAHN FOR REAL? The ads were part of a counterattack by Phillips Petroleum against Icahn's attempt to take over...
...slandered the good name of Poland." In announcing the sentences, Kujawa drew a distinction between Pietruszka and Piotrowski, whom he described as the decision makers, and their subordinates. Kujawa explained that he chose not to order Piotrowski hanged because Polish law states that punishment should seek to educate and frighten the criminal, not simply avenge the crime. Indeed, lawyers representing Popieluszko's family and his driver, Waldemar Chrostowski, at the trial had mentioned the priest's personal opposition to capital punishment. On the day the verdicts were announced, Popieluszko's relatives were not even in court; they had said earlier...
...write extensively about contemporary French literature. And while he found much greater latitude in the choice of subjects than was then permissible in England or the U.S., the effects sometimes distressed him. He admired Madame Bovary as, among other things, a perfectly rendered parable of degradation, more likely to frighten susceptible readers than seduce them: "Practically M. Flaubert is a potent moralist; whether, when he wrote his book, he was so theoretically is a matter best known to himself." But Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal provoked an attack on both the theorists of art for art's sake...