Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be having much trouble embracing Easy Rider. Rex Reed, no less, thinks Easy Rider "is a bold, courageous statement of life seldom matched in motion pictures." The current WBCN ad (BCN moves closer and closer to Krackerjacks every day) for Easy Rider starts with quotes from Life and moves on to include forty other critics who feel that Rider is the film you can't afford to miss. This review is dedicated to all those who expected a shuck...
...even the tribal lamentations at the bedside of the dying are being reintroduced. Vernacular masses can be found almost everywhere, and native drums, long used to call the faithful to church, are now a common part of many religious services. Though not all. Complained one Ugandan: "It sounds too much like a beer party...
...market indirectly through pension funds and mutual funds. For many families, tumbling stock prices have at least temporarily shattered some cherished dreams. Yet the market's unsettled state brings a wry kind of cheer to Washington's inflation fighters. In their rather clinical view, stock prices are much like spinach prices or durable-goods orders: an economic indicator. Because the market mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally...
Sour Tips. Quite a few investors protest too much. "I'm wiped out, man," says Larry Thomas, 26, an Atlanta insurance agent. In fact, he has a profit. The computer stock that he bought at 12 on a tip from a friend now sells at about 141, and his $9,600 initial investment is worth around $11,600. That, however, is less than one-third of the $37,600 he counted on paper last spring, when the stock briefly touched...
...losses by buying in the Japanese stock market as well as on Wall Street. Last spring he put $6,000 into Nomura Securities Co., an investment banking house, and $4,000 into Ikegai Iron Works, a machine-tool company. Ikegai has risen slightly; Nomura declined, but nowhere near as much as the U.S. securities that Chmielewski holds...