Word: res
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...only about an hour long, the theater offers another Durang comedy, The Actor's Nightmare to flesh out the evening. A mildly humorous play, The Actor's Nightmare is based on one very clever idea that nonetheless runs out of steam very fast. The story opens in medias res when George Spelvin, played by Jeff Brooks, finds himself backstage of a theater where an abrupt stage manager informs him that the play's leading man has been injured and George must take his place. Unfortunately George doesn't even know his own name much less his lines...
...industrious Leclerc franchiser in the town of Angoulême, who has conducted 409 funerals in defiance of the law, was fined $116,000 by the Bordeaux court of appeals. At one Leclerc funeral in Charleville-Mézières, the family of the deceased received threatening phone calls and the funeral director was roughed up. Leclerc, though, insists he will go on offering his services...
...Democratic Party first and foremost. At a breakfast meeting with reporters, she said the platform committee would draft a succinct thematic document, avoiding controversial planks "that can be used against us." She explained that specific legislation would not be mentioned by name, and cited "H J Res 1" as an example. The innocuous-sounding bill turned out to be the Equal Rights Amendment, and word of its planned omission caused a furor among women's groups. Ferraro's office was forced to issue a retraction that same afternoon...
...last January, Boisi was convinced the bid was too low. So beginning at 7:30 one morning, he phoned six U.S. oil companies and the government of Saudi Arabia to find another buyer. Within 48 hours, Texaco responded with a higher offer. When Pennzoil, advised by Lazard Frères, was slow to close the deal, Texaco moved in. The final price for Getty: $10.1 billion, or $128 a share...
Hollywood has lately been filching French comedies as source material (The Toy, The Man Who Loved Women, Blame It on Rio). You may as well see Les Compères before some mogul gets the bright idea to cast, say, Clint Eastwood and Jack Lemmon in a remake. Bet they call it Daddy Daddy...