Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left First Chicago because Abboud has a short fuse-befitting a man who is 5 ft. 6 in. and expects everybody to share his own I-made-it-the-hard-way workaholism. But few question that he runs a top bank; last year First Chicago Corp.'s assets rose 14% to $22.6 billion. Or that he comes forth with some unstarchy ideas from behind his stiff collars and vested suits...
...were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream. Broadbills normally stay hundreds of feet down-one reason they are so hard to catch-but in the early '70s, Cuban refugee fishermen discovered that these fish rose from the depths at night, apparently to feed on squid that in turn were feeding on microscopic plankton drifting in the cooling sea. In the past two years some 400 swordfish have been landed off lower Florida, including several world-record broadbills weighing more than 600 lbs. Top fishermen from around...
...fiber-glass rod. Some swordfish like to tease the bait. Not this one. He had hit with the wallop of a freight train. Mann released the ratchet on the reel to let the fish run. Then, without warning, the line slackened. The broadbill was streaking to the surface. He rose out of the water and fell back with a splash we could hear but not see. The glow of the Cyalume marked him 100 yds. to starboard. We could detect only the eerie green light, which now began tearing across the inky water and around our stern. The swordfish...
...counter reading Playboy, perusing the centerfold as if it were The New York Times, sucking his upper lip noisily and smoking a cigarette as if it were the first one he had ever seen in his life, he generally fails to establish himself as a convincing character. Director Leslie Rose obviously has no idea what a real redneck is like, and neither does Lipson. Throughout the play Lipson fumbles lines, drops his cigarette and slips in and out of character. He is markedly better in the second act, when he is being pushed by Grumbach, but his first act scene...
...overall impression one gets of this play is that the company, with aforementioned exceptions, is in over its head. Rose seems to have no real idea how to convey what the play is about, and seems to have let the actors work out their parts as best they can. This is not an easy play to follow, and the audience needs as much help...