Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignoble Falstaff who has already exited offstage, dragging the body of Hotspur as if he had killed the young leader himself. The final lesson of this production is that it is people who endure. The positions they hold, no matter how impressively presented, are, as Falstaff might say, mere "scutcheons...
...Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They do not become sinister -this is no mere haunted house-but they do become less knowable, withdrawn from recognition within the austere space of Nevelson's fiction...
...been succeeded by David W. Morrow, 46, who once worked with Chairman Scott at Albertson's, a food and drug chain based in Boise, Idaho. Though A. & P. is closemouthed about the profit crash and the executive shift, G.E. Manolovici of Bear, Stearns & Co., one of a mere handful of Wall Street analysts who bother to follow Grandma any more, says: "To me, as an outsider, this means they've got some terrible trouble over there...
...commonplace at A.&P. Between 1966 and 1976 the chain's sales rose from $5.4 billion to $7.2 billion, but profits fell from $56 million to less than $14 million. They are likely to shrink this year to near invisibility. Even in 1976 A. & P. earned a mere tenth of a cent on each dollar in sales. The company yielded top sales rank in the supermarket business to Safeway (1976 volume: $10.4 billion) in 1973. Now it is close to being overtaken as well by Kroger (1976 sales: $6 billion). A. & P. shareholders are understandably disgruntled because they have...
...some, Sevareid's world view was naive, his evenhandedness mere equivocating. Even fans jokingly called him Eric Everyside, and he was easy to caricature. In Philip Roth's 1971 novel Our Gang, "Erect Severehead" delivered this commentary: "Yet madmen there have been and madmen there will be, and still this nation has endured. And, I daresay, endure it will... leaving us in the end, if not stronger, wiser; and if not wiser, stronger; and if, alas, not either, both...