Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Double Collateral Though Percy appeared bumbling and inept on procedural matters during the hearings, he persuasively showed that Lance had received a $2,625,000 loan from New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. in 1975 and signed a note pledging 148,118 shares of National Bank of Georgia stock, plus any future income from that stock, as collateral. After Lance received an N.B.G. stock dividend of 14,657 shares in December 1975, officials of the New York bank futilely sought to get Lance to deliver those 14,657 shares, to which it was entitled. Insisting that the value...
...with the time he went into New York City to pick up baseball tickets from a Shinnecock member named Charles Steele, a partner in the firm of the famous financier J.P. Morgan. When he arrived, Steele was in a board meeting with Morgan himself, so Thom sent in a note that read: "THE KING OF SHINNECOCK IS WAITING TO SEE MR. STEELE." Thom was then welcomed into the meeting and introduced around. Before he left, Morgan handed him a $20 gold piece, saying, "I don't ever want anyone to say he wasn't paid for the time he spent...
...squalor has mired Herr Werner still deeper in the quicksand of the art film syndrome. Stroszek is an aimless film about aimless people, society's losers who spend their lives groping for a promised dream that goes unfulfilled. Set in the slums of Berlin. Stroszek begins on a note of hope as the film's protagonist gains his release from a local mental institution. Played by a German actor going under the nom de theatre of Bruno S., the Stroszek character quickly becomes an awkward and self-conscious symbol of the social orphan. Herzog sketches the despair and alienation...
...scientists objected to the way the networks played up and glorified pseudo science in shows like NBC's Bermuda Triangle special, a network spokesman explained that it was put on by its entertainment division and had not been labeled an NBC News special! Was the viewer supposed to note the omission...
...want the plain, unvarnished truth. But truth has its own complexity. Even in the most straight-arrow precincts of journalism-in newspaper city rooms, newsmagazine offices and television newsrooms, where facts are regarded as the inviolable raw material-it is recognized that facts don't speak for themselves. Note how all the professionals refer to their own necessary pattycaking of an event into narrative shape giving it emphasis and a beginning, middle and end, as a story...