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Though Moore is adept at slapstick humor, his longterm aspirations are in a more serious vein. In the future, Moore hopes to work for a theater that is both popular and able to convey a message. "I don't like meaningless Broadway entertainment, but I also don't like to go and set there and feel stupid, trying to figure out the director's meaning." Moore thinks that avant-garde theater is becoming too elitist and inaccessible, and terms it "pretentious...
Rain forced the squad to move inside to play the now-meaningless doubles matches--which may prove costly. Arkie Engle, who plays fifth singles and first doubles, went down with a twisted ankle, and the Cantabs were forced to concede his match...
...zealous clerics snatching souls from "the fangs of the 'Infernal Wolf' " and its droll view of the New World. "These Canadian tribes," wrote Parkman, "were undergoing that process of extermination, absorption, or expatriation, which, as there is reason to believe, had for many generations formed the gloomy and meaningless history of the greater part of this continent...
...according to Joseph Fogg III of the New York investment banking firm Morgan Stanley. For its part, Phillips can rest easy. Pickens promised not to launch a new battle for the company for at least 15 years, and Icahn agreed to stay away for eight. But those may be meaningless pledges. With all its new debt, Phillips has lost much of its luster as a takeover target...
...price--$1.08 per bu. on 1985 wheat. The Administration bill would in effect phase out the program. Target prices would be reduced gradually until they were no higher than the loan rates. At that point there would be no more deficiency payments and the target prices would be virtually meaningless...