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...That's life for Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum), a Los Angeles aerospace engineer who is so tired of his lot that he can't go to sleep. Something keeps him from closing his eyes. Is he hooked on banality? For its first 15 minutes, this movie certainly is. It falls in with Ed's somnolent gait, trudging through tapioca as Ed aimlessly drives to the airport after spying his wife making sex with her boss. By the time Ed nods over his steering wheel, you are getting very . . . sleepy...
...Radcliffe funded the lecture by Professor Susan Okin organized by the Graduate Women in History...
...Nieman Fellows will be represented by Willard Browne, of the Sacramento Union, John Day, of the Huntington, West Virginia Associated Press, Fred Warner Neal, of the Washington Bureau of the Wall Street Journal, Robert Okin, of the New York City Associated Press, and William Townes of the Cleveland Press...
...Truth. Stockholder Okin bellowed on: "I'm going to tell the whole truth about the company's officers and directors . . . and don't anybody try to stop me." Paced by the staccato poundings of President Sam Murphy, Okin told how he had bought 9,000 shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that...
...guts who would fight the SEC." Another proposed to pitch out the present nine-man board of directors, put in three management men, three preferred stockholders, three common shareholders. President Murphy called this "an excellent idea," but out of order unless names were submitted in advance. Then over-zealous Okin grabbed the floor again, harangued for over an hour. The shareholders listened at first, then heckled him, hooted him, finally shouted him down...