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...limousine driver also capture their expressions extremely well. His control of facial expressions provided a welcome relief to what seemed awkward pauses among other actors when they were not an active part of the scene. At times the acting can become melodramatic. Even Smith as a barber falls prey to this when he laments the loss of idealism of one of his customers...
...claims to speak for all Black students at Harvard. There are those of us, however, who feel he has misrepresented not only the Professor's argument but also the entire Black population of this country. His piece falsely portrays the latter as a culturally and politically monolithic group. Falling prey to a "romantic realism," Mr. Farley contrasts the inherent honesty, virtue, and simple "traditional customs" of Blacks with the materialistic, so-called, "yuppie ethic" of whites...
...year-old drifter was found shot to death in December, and a flyer was circulated threatening more violence to the homeless who camp there. Jerry Hill, an Episcopal priest in Dallas, says that people who camp at the outskirts of the city endure "tremendous abuse by young punks who prey on them and beat them, sometimes very sadistically...
...never actually acquired a major corporation. His usual style has been to frighten a firm by first investing in it and then proclaiming that he could run the corporation, which invariably dwarfs Mesa in size, better than its current officers. After an often bitter battle, Pickens' harried and outmaneuvered prey frequently sells out for a high price to a friendly rescuer. That leaves Pickens without an acquisition, but with an immense profit on his shares of the company...
...haunting the leaders of some of America's largest corporations. The specter is a Texan--a very rich and wily one. His name is T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens Jr. The danger executives see is that he may be out to buy their company, and when Pickens attacks, his prey rarely escapes unscathed. Indeed, a remarkable run of successes has made T. Boone Pickens, 56, president of Amarillo-based Mesa Petroleum, probably the most feared corporate raider on the business scene today...