Word: kidders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such concerns began to seem more immediate during the summer of '29, as the economy began to falter. After the market reached its high on Sept. 3, there was a gentle decline, with ups as well as downs, for several weeks. "We tend to blame the market," says Kidder Peabody Chairman Albert Gordon, 78, who then worked in corporate finance for Goldman, Sachs. "But the market was just a symptom. We were in a bad economic situation whether or not the stock market crashed...
...result is not chills, but an uncontrollable desire to break into laughter, so lacking is the film in properly gothic suspense. Margot Kidder is chipper and pleasant as the puzzled wife resisting her worst suspicions about the demons in her dream house, but she cannot overcome the film's ineptitude and lethargy. The movie's creators should either have stuck to the facts, ma'am, or they should have invented something to scare the pants off us. As it is, they have managed merely to bore them...
...Kidder Smith...
...Dartmouth men gladly vacated their fraternities and dorms so female guests could be sedately accommodated. Professors and their wives opened their homes and acted as chaperones to their students' dates. There was a great cooperative scurry to find segregated living quarters. "In those days," recalls Physics Professor John Kidder, "you could go all week without seeing a woman on campus. Then came carnival and women were everywhere. It made the whole place electric." Says another old grad: "You can't imagine the anticipation, the apprehension, the inevitable letdown...
...blubbery and only on for a few minutes. I hear the approach is a little campy in places, and I'm not too eager to see Gene Hackman again after his Polish general (read with a hard 'g') in A Bridge Too Far. Margot Kidder looks like a cute Lois Lane, and they say Christopher Reeve really flies well, and the producers have spent more money so far on this film and its sequel (Variety says 60 million) than on any other, but I don't know--I smell Kong...