Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services empire, built with the assistance of Switzerland's loose banking laws -and in part with that of the banks themselves. In 1974 the Union Bank of Switzerland lost $56 million in foreign-exchange speculations, and the Lugano branch of Britain's Lloyd's Bank dropped $89 million in similar dealings...
...idea of a living memorial opens unlimited vistas to monument-minded Americans. What about installing a young novelist in William Faulkner's house in Oxford, Miss.? A young architect in Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Oak Park, Ill.? A young physicist in Albert Einstein's house in Princeton, N.J.? A young semanticist in Casey Stengel's house in Glendale, Calif...
...policies: Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Sol Chaikin, president of the Ladies Garment Workers; Glenn Watts, chief of the Communications Workers, and Jerry Wurf, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Two more possible recruits for a liberal coalition are Lloyd McBride, new president of the United Steelworkers, and Douglas Fraser, who is expected to lead the United Auto Workers back into...
...setting is purportedly Chicago, though all of Brecht's locales are exercises in exotic fantasy. The action is centered in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Christopher Lloyd) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Grayson Hall). She masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Reverend" (John A. Coe), "the Professor" (Robert Weil) and "Mammy" (Benjamin Rayson). They are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura (Tony Azito), a Fu Manchu look-alike who speaks only in sibilants. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah...
...Agitprop. The players invest the slapdash plot with wit and perfect timing. Wheeling on crutches necessitated by a recent stage fall, Lloyd's Bill has a saturnine piratical mien worthy of Long John Silver. Though slightly reedy of voice, Meryl Streep renders the Brecht lines with impeccable intelligence. The marvel of the evening is the Kurt Weill score, arguably superior to that of The Threepenny Opera...