Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity...
Afterward she divided her life between her children in Rome (Rossellini got custody), a new husband in France and her revived career. If they sometimes had little else to redeem them, the plays and movies she starred in were illuminated by her stately, ageless presence. "Too bad she isn't the queen of some country," an adoring Goldie Hawn reflected...
...plague of unfunny punch lines and lackluster performances. There are a couple of droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts hanging out to dry; Coco at work in the pharaoh's palace, trying to sweep up hundreds of frogs with a dustpan and broom), but nothing can redeem Wholly Moses! from its destiny of eternal mirthlessness. It is a tattered Torah indeed, a comedy made out of hole cloth...
...Happy!!, known among the cognoscenti as "20 Hits 20," sports 20 songs, and any one of them would redeem any album by any other artist. Elvis Costello is aggressively showing off, sneering "anything you can do, I can do better," and getting away with it because he's right. The scope of the music is vast, expanding an already startling repertoire of styles. Lyrically, Elvis continues to be ambitious and elliptical, outrageous, profound. The themes are familiar: betrayal, emotional imprisonment, greed, loss of feeling...
Sunshine's 15-year bonds will be sold in $1,000 denominations next March, through underwriters Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. The company can redeem them in cash or bulk on. The amount of silver backing the bonds will be related to the spot-market price of the metal on the day of issue. But if, for example, each bond has 20 oz. of silver behind it, when it is redeemed the holder will receive $1,000 or the value of 20 oz. of silver, whichever is greater. The advantage to Sunshine, which recently escaped a bloody takeover attempt...