Word: nick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial community, however, Volcker became a hero. Bankers and brokers applauded him for sticking with his tight-money policy until the recession had tamed inflation, slashing the annual rate of price increases from 13% at the beginning of his term to less than 4% now. Then, in the nick of time last summer, Volcker loosened up enough to set the stage for a recovery that now looks more vigorous every week...
...poker requires knowing the odds, playing tightly and chiseling away at whatever optimists wander into the game. In no-limit, as one poker carnivore tells Alvarez, "the target comes alive and shoots back at you." Shooting back, in one legendary five-month game years ago between Johnny Moss and Nick the Greek, came down to a five-card stud hand in which Moss, with a pair of nines, thought he had the Greek locked. Moss figured his opponent for a low pair and discounted his fifth card as no help. He bet everything he had. As Alvarez writes...
...project a great many varieties of competent villainy, from the goodnatured profligacy of Stephen Rowe as Charles to the simpering idiocy of Thomas Derrah as Benjamin Backbite. The ART also has lived up to its Faculty duties by casting several undergraduates, including Maggie Topkis '83 as a maidservant and Nick Wyse '84 as one of Charles's circle of drinking companions. Judging from the results, the ART can only benefit from more such collaborations...
...sextuple entendre, as when Taylor says, "I feel rather scared of marriage really," looking out at the audience with the eyes of a wounded doe. What the Elyot-Amanda roles call for is the sort of fond nonchalance and glancing asperity that William Powell and Myrna Loy brought to Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath or beyond...
...argue. Lancôme is paying a boxcarful of money for its whim (some $9,000 a day, or more than $1,100 an hour, for instance, just for the services of Star Model Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody has found a French cowherd. Actually he is a Puerto Rican waiter, but in beret, smock and scarf, and with rouge on his round cheeks to suggest a history of drinking...