Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lord of this glass-and-concrete palace is a Jewish real estate mogul named Arthur Goldman (Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter...
...long list of drugs that have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective in most cases than earlier medicines and promises real progress in future Parkinsonism treatment, once it is thoroughly tested. Unfortunately, it has already touched off a flurry of premature hope among U.S. Parkinsonism victims, variously estimated at between...
Refreshing in an entirely different way is That's Life (Tuesday, 10-11 p.m.). In this free-spirited musical lark, another hapless hero, Robert Morse, plays opposite a real-life doll with the unlikely name of E.J. (for Edra Jeanne) Peaker. Informal to the point of plotlessness, the series romps through a tomato surprise of old tunes and new ones, comedy sketches and big production numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will...
...performance reflected another lively argument-the one among securities analysts about the market's actual strength. Those of bearish mind argue that higher income taxes will shortly begin to quell the consumer buying spree that has kept the U.S. economy humming. As evidence that there is little real steam behind the market surge, they cite the fact that trading volume on the Big Board has slipped below its spring torrent. The bulls point to such rosy predictions as last week's forecast by the National Association of Business Economists that the economy faces only a "brief hesitation late...
Last week Helmsley, a former office boy who, at 59, has become one of the nation's largest real estate owners, an nounced his latest purchase. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has agreed to sell Helmsley its gigantic Parkchester apartment complex in The Bronx...