Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoes that plod through life interminably in search of a mate. Yet as the reels went by, the heroine changed slowly from a standard figure of fun to a unique and even sinister individual: a wounded and frightened young woman who wanted love but settled for power?with a husband she could dominate and a baby she could smother-mother. As Georgy, Lynn cunningly combined emotional empathy and ironical detachment. Says Sidney Lumet, who directed The Dead'y Affair, in which Lynn played a small role: "She can editorialize on a character without interrupting her portrayal of it." Acuity...
...romantic conception of acting?but then Vanessa is above all a romantic. "She is one of the great romantics of our generation," says her estranged husband, Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). "Anything and everything can be romantic to Vanessa. She can believe in everything." Says Director Lumet: "She just plunges off the diving board without bothering to check if there's water in the pool...
...illegal in both the U.S. and Canada. On July 10, 1964, the prosecution charged, she arranged to sell 244,000 shares of Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., another of her companies. At the same time, she bought up the entire block for the accounts of ten persons, including her husband George. Since Golden Arrow stock had been sluggish up to that point, the sudden burst of activity was enough to send its price soaring within an hour from 25? to over...
Viola's attorney insisted that by buying stock for the benefit of others, she was merely "a good friend doing a good turn." Indeed, aside from a relatively small chunk of Golden Arrow stock that her husband sold at the bloated price, there was no testimony indicating that the MacMillans enriched themselves from the 1964 transactions. But York County Court Judge Garth Moore pointed out that Viola had called her broker to check on the market price of Golden Arrow after placing her orders-a move that helped convince the judge she had intended to stimulate her company...
...appeal, was just a start. For one thing, her broker, Robert J. Breckenridge, a former president of the Toronto Exchange and onetime chairman of the city's Better Business Bureau, has also been charged with wash trading in the Golden Arrow case. And Viola herself, together with her husband, will stand trial on more serious fraud charges because of their Windfall dealings. For all her troubles, the Queen Bee remains grimly defiant. "They can't take my love of mining away from me," she said last week. "I'll have that till...