Word: greeds
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...School, that bastion of greed' cross the river...
...actually needs to be made more relevant for today's audience, a not unpromising conceit. Robin Williams is a Peter Unprincipled, grounded in all the latest guilts and anxieties. He has a new surname (Banning) and a wife and two kids he neglects, owing to the press of the greed business. He is also afflicted by a convenient case of amnesia. He knows he's an orphan, but he can't remember anything that happened before "Gran Wendy" (Maggie Smith) arranged for his adoption by an American couple. Namely, he can't remember that he passed his preadolescent years wearing...
...Roof--by Tennessee Williams. Classic Southern drama of a family experiencing love, death, greed, homosexuality and alcohol. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In the Lowell House junior common room at 8 p.m. Admission...
...Civil Wars is bleaker and more brutal than anything Bochco has done before: an unrelenting parade of vengeful spouses, greed, infidelity, callousness and other mental cruelties. "You're bitter, you're needy, and you're gonna poison whatever and whoever you come in contact with!" shouts a husband at the wife he wants to leave because she has gained too much weight. (She actually looks pretty good.) A rich couple bickers over custody of sterling silver soup tureens and antique snuffboxes, until a stenographer -- who is struggling to pay her son's medical bills -- blows up: "You have no idea...
...great bronze doors at Hildesheim, are visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...