Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role of Bill Snibson, the Cockney peer, was originally a star turn for Lupino Lane, a comic mime of the '30s. Lindsay, seen in the U.S. as Edmund in Laurence Olivier's TV King Lear, proves an inspired successor. He has mastered the stereotypical Cockney's accusatory inflections, rough humor, feral grace and odd parlor tricks, from a no-hands bobbing of his hat on his head to incessant, playful swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water...
...exploding in most ungentlemanly fashion. Venerable brokerage houses that have dozed along contentedly almost since Edwardian times are merging or being snapped up by marauding U.S., Japanese or French financial institutions. Pinstripe City men who have known each other since Oxford or Cambridge days are rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting at the seams, as rapidly expanding investment houses sprawl farther along the Thames into...
...forms? In a study for TIME, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand used computer models to calculate the burden for seven hypothetical families under the current code and under the proposed law for 1988, the first year that most of the changes will become fully effective. These are rough figures, since the fine-tuning of the measure has not yet been completed...
...London production's metaphoric intentions are evident the moment the audience sees the backdrop. A lurid, scrawled red line divides a vista of white-capped mountains and a blue sky with clouds from a rough black collage below, inset with garbage cans, pails, tires and a metal ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys...
...fact, the Simmons readership figures are only a rough estimate of how many people look at a paper as it gets passed around. Most advertisers regard paid-circulation figures as a better gauge of newspaper performance. In that department, the Journal still leads, selling 1.99 million copies daily. With a paid circulation of 1.2 million, USA Today comes in third, behind the New York Daily News (1.3 million...