Word: ken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some of my American friends, including Ken Galbraith, suggested that I should run, but Masako, my wife, took a rather ambivalent position: that is, she would support my candidacy if she were not Mrs. Tsuru, implying that a need for divorce action in case of my running." Tsuru wrote in his report...
...anticlerical, the husband and wife send their children to English-Canadian schools, where the Roman Catholic Church cannot reach them. This seems to result in an estrangement between parents and offspring. The girls marry English Canadians: "the two Bobs, the Don, the Ian, and the last one -- Keith, or Ken?" Their bemused father cannot tell them apart at family gatherings. As for the patriarch's grandchildren, they "seem to belong to a new national type, with round heads, and quite large front teeth. You would think some Swede or other had been around Montreal on a bicycle...
...slowdown in computer sales has been most devastating for the semiconductor industry. When the market was strong, computer firms were all wildly optimistic in placing their microchip orders. Says Ken McKenzie, an associate director of the Dataquest research firm in Sunnyvale, Calif.: "Every company that produced a clone of the IBM Personal Computer expected to get 22% of the market, and there were 60 of those companies." When computer makers realized that their sales would not come close to expectations, they started canceling chip orders, leaving the semiconductor companies to sit on mountains of inventories. The glut of chips drove...
...play, told in montage style, juxtaposes reveries by the ingratiating central couple--for example, about the pleasures of "nondirective, noncommitted, nonauthoritarian" sex--with satiric snippets depicting how that rhetoric translates into the raunch and squalor of an anonymous sexual underworld. The supporting cast all play multiple roles; Ken Kliban and Lily Knight are especially effective as an AIDS victim's estranged straight brother and tolerant chum. Hoffman has written rich, lyric dialogue for the leads: a budding writer (Jonathan Hogan) who is diagnosed as having the disease, and a former lover (Jonathan Hadary) who takes him back...
...performances are uniformly excellent. Peter Coyote as Blue is arrogant, self centered and outrageously charming; he mysteriously draws people to him like a whirlpool. Nick Maneuso's Eli handsome and well groomed enough to be a Ken doil, and he's just as dull lot awhile, but blanketed intensity and final indignation are all the mere effective in the end Heartbreakers is updated look at Nathanael West The Day of the "dream dump," modern day Los Angeles, those who state are all dissatisfied and spend she then days and might pretending they...