Word: household
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divorce last September, Cornelia countersued on grounds of "physical cruelty and actual violence." The legal battle promised to be lurid, but minutes before the trial was to begin, an out-of-court agreement was announced, giving Cornelia a lump sum of $75,000 in alimony, some lake property and household appliances...
...wasn't any piddling 14 bucks like it is in Cambridge, it was a piddling 65 bucks. New York is using the money they get from towed cars to help bail them out of their financial woes because they can't get a big enough loan from Household Finance...
...entangling the rest of the principals in the movie. The story unfolds as Emma invites Deedee's eldest daughter Emilia (Browne), an 18-year-old ballet student bursting with raw talent and innocent sexuality, catches Emma's eye and is promptly invited to join the company. Deedee leaves the household and dance school in the capable hands of her husband and accompanies Emilia to New York, intent on supervising her climb to stardom. The impressionable protege soon takes a strong liking to her mentor Emma (who happens to be Emilia's godmother), much to her mother's dismay. Deedee...
Suddenly, the screen shows a beautiful, starlit night in peaceful Muncie, Indiana. A five-year-old boy (Teri Garr) and his single mother (Melinda Dillon) are drifting off to sleep to the sound of crickets. Then strange things start to happen: the child's electric toys begin to stir, household appliances go haywire, and objects start moving about in the air. The fearless boy is amused and seems to notice a mysterious presence in the room. The commotion ceases, and the child's sluggish mother awakens only in time to run after her little boy who has gone trampsing across...
...falling value of the dollar enables a British firm to put up fewer pounds for a buyout. Unilever, which had 1976 revenues of $14.8 billion, dwarfs National Starch, which posted 1976 sales of $339 million. But National Starch's industrial markets complement Unilever's lines of household products, which include Lifebuoy and Wisk, Pepsodent toothpaste and Lipton tea, and would make Unilever a little less dependent on the housewife...