Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission's charges against Boesky, which the investor neither confirmed nor denied in accepting last week's judgment, are detailed in some areas and fuzzy in others. In essence the agency says that from February 1985 to February 1986, Boesky profited as part of a far-flung insider scheme that involved Investment Banker Levine and at least three others. Named in the SEC complaint are Robert Wilkis, formerly at Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton; Ira Sokolow, once with Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb and then with Shearson/American Express; and David Brown, formerly of Goldman, Sachs. The trio have given...
...first the world learned of the unraveling scheme was just before Jacobsen's release, when Al Shiraa (The Sailboat Mast), a weekly magazine published in Muslim West Beirut, ran a sensational article reporting that the U.S. had been sending spare parts and ammunition for jet fighters to Iran. The magazine further said that McFarlane and four companions had visited Tehran in early September, stayed at the Independence (formerly Hilton) Hotel and met with a variety of officials from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, parliament and army, who supposedly asked for more military equipment. Shortly after the visit, said Al Shiraa...
...confides that the reason for her amazing psychic powers is that she was born with a tail. Yes! Her mamma had it surgically removed and kept it in the medicine cabinet, "right between the 4-Way Cold Tablets and the monkey blood." Which is about where, in the cinematic scheme of things, True Stories fits. Right between a 4-H rally and the Monkees' Head. Between Dallas and Paris, Texas. Between Charles Kuralt and Fellini. Between David Letterman and David Lynch. Between everything you forgot about rock movies and nothing you quite expect...
Watson plays Guildenstern as a frustrated intellectual, spinning out syllogisms and setting up models in hope of discovering significance in the larger scheme of life. Gelber's Rosencrantz is more at ease making feeble, hilariously incongruent conversation...
Enter Frank (Chris Haywood), the gruff voice of experience. Fresh out of prison, he is anxious to concoct a new get-rich-quick scheme. Malcolm needs a broader. Frank needs an innocent, unsuspecting landlord. A match made in heaven...