Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of character has been an important plus in the governor's campaign. "If the president was chosen based upon international affairs, defense strategy or charisma, Dukakis wouldn't have a chance," said Boston political consultant Michael S. Goldman. "But since national issues, competence, honesty and personal integrity are now the issues, Dukakis will do well...
...Dukakis straightarrow image has been selling well. He has shown great success in fund raising, which helped him enter the first tier of candiates, Goldman said...
...Grimm is to blend the warring moods of fantasy and cynicism. The story must create a land of outsize heroes and villains yet comment ironically on the unhappy state of a land that needs them. The tone must be grandly facetious to accommodate believers as well as skeptics. William Goldman tried all this in his 1973 novel The Princess Bride. His narrative had all the proper ingredients and all the right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much...
...established a major beachhead in California, where four of the top ten banks are now Japanese owned: California First Bank, Sanwa Bank, Bank of California and Sumitomo Bank of California. On Wall Street, Japan's Sumitomo Bank shelled out $500 million for a 12.5% share of profits in the Goldman, Sachs investment-banking firm, while Nippon Life Insurance paid $538 million for a 13% slice of Shearson Lehman...
...result of Mackintosh's invitation to Sondheim and Librettist James Goldman to "have a wee think" about revamping the show, the pair has come up with four new songs and a completely new book. According to a program note by the creators, "scarcely a line of dialogue remains from the original." The central story of two couples, old friends, who married the wrong partners used to end in nervous breakdowns for some of them; it now closes with self- understanding and at least hints of reconciliation. What felt in 1971 like a put-down of old-fashioned musicals for their...