Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girl of the title role (Laura Esterman) is a shtetl beauty, eyed from afar by the local shlemiel, Alchonon (F. Murray Abraham). Teibele loathes her admirer - until he appears in her bed room in the guise of a demon. Under the stars they become lovers, while under the sun they remain strangers, until the night creature persuades his lady to marry Alchonon. But with the public union come private agonies: the alchemic force disperses, leaving two ordinary people who plunge into insanity and sorrow...
...sitting forward in his seat." He added: "Sometimes the atmosphere in the salesroom is absolutely crackling. The eyes of the whole world are on you at an impressionist sale. As much as $5 million may change hands in one evening. You just feel the weight of money in the room...
Walter B. Wriston, Citibank chairman, joining a coalition of chief executives who hope to increase business influence in New York: "In Pittsburgh, you can get 20 guys in a room and build the Golden Triangle. In New York, you can't get 20 guys to fix a parking ticket...
...after Christopher's father, an FBI man turned electronics executive, got his son a $140-a-week job with TRW Defense and Space Systems Group near Los Angeles. The young man's duties included handling coded messages from the CIA about spy satellites. He worked in a room called the Black Vault, off limits to all but half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure...
Their most frequent complaints: political bias, lack of patriotism and failure to provide students with firm moral guidance. The nine-room house the Gablers built in 1965 in Longview, Texas, is crammed with shelves of textbooks and copies of line-by-line listings of their objections and those lodged by other volunteers. They have become a clearinghouse ("The nation's largest," says Mel) for critiques written by almost anyone of textbooks, dictionaries and library books. They mail copies on request and receive contributions in return that total some $60,000 per year...