Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First National Bank of Chicago and BankAmerica, hold Harvester loans of $125 million or more. A Harvester bankruptcy would thus generate huge losses. Moreover, bankers nervously wonder how many other major corporations will be in jeopardy if the economy does not pull strongly out of the recession. Says Elvis Mason, chairman of the InterFirst Corp., a bank holding company in Dallas: "It's the bankrupcty I have not yet anticipated that worries me most...
...only come to terms with Rowdy's loss, but been introduced to almost all the other perils a youngster must cope with these days: drugs, crime, sex, class distinctions, absent parents. The last of these is not the least of these. Tex and his sober, conventionally ambitious brother Mason are pretty much on their own in their tumbledown ranch house. Their mother is dead and their father is a rodeo performer who often forgets to send money home to the boys. In teen-age fantasies, the kind of autonomy they enjoy is widely held to be ideal...
...values in a scene efficiently, nail them down and move on unfussily. One would like to call it American classicism, if that phrase did not have such a forbidding ring to it. Mostly, however, the joy of the film arises from the acting of its central roles. As Mason, Jim Metzler conveys solidity without stolidity, commonsensicality without priggishness. It is the sort of self-effacing work that often, unfairly, gets overlooked in the movies. That is especially so when paired with a performance like Matt Dillon's as Tex. He's the kind of youngster who blends...
...naturalness vanishes the instant it is groomed with comb, brush, scissors or curlers. The term natural, in its strictest sense, should not be applied to anything contrived or even changed by man. Some philosophers, to be sure, encourage a soupy sort of reductionism. "Nature who made the mason, made the house," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. That notion is nonsense. It is plain as rain that people invented the house to escape the elements of nature...
...learned of her husband's infidelity from Nancy Reagan, which was emphatically denied by a Reagan aide. The White House's discomfiture rose even higher when it was disclosed that Marvin Mitchelson, the well-known palimony lawyer who briefly represented Morgan, had discussed the case with Morgan Mason, special assistant to the President. Mitchelson says the two talked about the suit for two hours at the White House; Mason said it came up in the course of a social dinner at a Washington restaurant...