Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price abortions are available, but the concomitant red-tape and the reputedly shoddy manner with which the operations are performed lend yet another topic for the well-developed sense of Soviet chorny (black) humor...
California Lawyer Bill McKay (Robert Redford) is for clean air, clean water, clean beaches and clean politics. When Lucas, the state's Democratic kingmaker, discovers him, McKay is in his blue denim shirtsleeves down among the poor, trying to lend a helping hand with some everyday legal wrangles. Lucas (Peter Boyle) watches him in action for a while, then makes his move: Would McKay like to run for the U.S. Senate...
...dealer of the Morgan Guaranty bank in London. Barham commands a team of nine dealers in a small office crammed with telephones and Teletype machines that connect with other dealers. On an average day, Barham and his men buy and sell about $260 million worth of foreign money, and lend and borrow nearly $1 billion more, largely in Eurodollars. Corporations and banks use the borrowings to finance their speculative short selling of weak currencies...
...Chinese were prepared to lend a hand within limits. Indeed, they are believed to have urged such negotiations when Le Due Tho, Hanoi's chief delegate to the Paris peace talks, visited Peking a few days earlier. The Chinese have made it clear in private that they disapprove of Hanoi's current offensive-and of the conventional-type warfare that the North Vietnamese have been waging with Soviet weaponry. Thus they have recently provided only military aid to Hanoi and have closed their harbors to Soviet ships bearing supplies for North Viet...
...most effective orator. The moment when Antony first confronts Caesar's corpse and soliloquizes while hugging the body in his arms is the most moving in the production. But his handling of the famous funeral oration is disappointing. His timing here, and often elsewhere, is all off. He delivers "Lend me your ears" and "I come to bury Caesar" in a run-on manner that makes no sense whatever. He should study the fresh and definitive Antony of Marlon Brando in the movie. I do, however, like the way Hecht points out the several cuts in Caesar's mantle, which...