Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall Street lost its traditional role of financier to the world. An Interest Equalization Tax (I.E.T.) first proposed by President Kennedy and passed during the Johnson Administration made it prohibitively expensive for Americans to buy foreign securities and effectively forced foreigners who had been accustomed to floating bond issues in the U.S. to borrow elsewhere. But I.E.T. was lifted in mid-1974, and since then the foreigners have come flooding back sell what they call Yankee bonds to Americans. According to Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the total ofj public foreign-bond borrowings in the U.S.-mostly by governments -jumped from...
Coach McLaughlin expects a tough game today, but Tom Davis is new in the head coach role at B.C. and Digger Phelps's former assistant at Notre Dame says they will be "shaky...
After the rocky start, all the players turn in topnotch performances, with Lisa Beach standing out, intensifying her role with each word. After throwing away her opening lines like most of her cohorts, Beach ends up carrying much of the comedy and dialogue later in the play. Victoria Allan, Diana Gamser and Jim Smith have their roles down perfectly, they don't seem to be acting. The play develops occasional snags with some dead lines from Hoyt and Hall, as well as some zingers that miss. However, Hoyt and Hall center the focus of the play effectively, in spite...
Calling for action, Voeller said educators must take a leading role in researching human sexuality and in teaching the American public that homosexuality and bisexuality are not sicknesses...
...Lemmon)plays pim pin order to get a key to the executive washroom. Lemmon is perfect as the "schnook" who gets cornered into lending his apartment to philandering higher-ups in the Big New York Conglomerate in which he works. (Just a few years later, Lemmon, having played this role once too often, turned into a grotesque caricature of himself.) Shirley MacLaine is appropriately touching as the tough-tender waif that Lemmon falls for, and Fred MacMurray is menacing in the uncharacteristically villainous role of Lemmon's sleazy boss. The script, by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, is sophisticated and funny...