Word: halseyisms
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...title seriously, and in his self-styled "historical romance," the images of atrocity are all the more striking. His concern for history, moreover, does not end there: he clearly intends his work to be an education as well as drama. Historical characters, from Roosevelt to Admiral "Bull" Halsey to General Eisenhower's good friend Kay Summersby, are drawn with lively precision. To outline the war's broad strategies, he again employs an unusual device, an invented history called World Holocaust, written from the enemy's viewpoint by a German general and translated, after...
...alone remained unblunted. In vited to a preview of a film about an alcoholic, The Lost Weekend, he declined wryly: "Would you invite Admiral Halsey to play with the boats in your baby's bathtub?" Even when it was directed at someone else, Mank's lance was really pointed toward himself...
...opinion of many commodities dealers, the CFTC's ban is overkill because it would apply not only to the hucksters but to such respected New York City firms as Mocatta Metals and Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, which sell options on gold, silver and other metals futures. Senator Walter Huddleston of Kentucky will soon introduce legislation to permit the sale of options, but only by firms that have a net worth of $10 million or more and fully disclose costs, commissions and fees...
...Ouch!) to poke wicked fun at their most faddish excesses; similar pranks have been pulled on the psychedelic animation of Yellow Submarine. Unfortunately, the show's creators have not lavished nearly so much care on their casting. The four Rutles (Idle, Innes, John Halsey, Rikki Fataar) are virtually indistinguishable, and their performances are morbidly charmless...
...company that might be subject to takeover, in the hope of selling at a profit to the firm that eventually acquires the target company. The principal practitioners, all based in New York City, number no more than 20. They include such well-known investment houses as Salomon Brothers; Bache Halsey Stuart; Goldman, Sachs; and Lehman Brothers, which make arbitrage purchases for their own accounts, on behalf of wealthy clients, or both. There are also a few individual operators, ike Ivan Boesky, a lawyer, accountant, and security analyst. He set up his own firm two years ago to deal exclusively...