Word: seasickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like reggae? Does she like Rostropovich? "I try to introduce two people who are so similar to each other that when the going gets rough, they can fall back on their similarities. If a client likes to sail, he's a poor match for a woman who gets seasick...
...meeting of these strong-willed, lethal innocents is at first a comedy of errors. She, seeing his clerical garb, feels obliged to ask Oscar to hear her confession, even though that is the last thing she wants. He, shy, seasick, and terrified of the ocean view he knows he must face through her first-class porthole, reluctantly drags himself to his duty. He listens: "She confessed that she had attended rooms in Drury Lane for the purposes of playing fan- tan." He leaps to her, and his, defense: "Our whole faith is a wager, Miss Leplastrier . . . we bet that there...
...cruise will begin at 8:00 p.m., and the boat will leave the harbor at 8:30, Leff said. "It doesn't go out onto the open ocean so people don't have to worry about getting seasick," he added...
...blows a typhoon. At first it seems a mix of two unsuited masters. And anyone who comes to The Witches of Eastwick expecting a Masterpiece Theatre adaptation will be disappointed, not to say grossed out. Alex wakes up in a bed of snakes; puke spumes as if from a seasick sewer pipe. No problem. Miller and Michael Cristofer have simply chosen to tell the story from coarse Daryl's point of view rather than, as Updike did, from the ironic women's. This is not a movie of compound-complex sentences and nuances. But it is a damned entertaining...
Perhaps too exhilarating, in fact. Program traders like Schmuckler have been accused of sharply accelerating the ups and downs of the stock market and making the rest of Wall Street seasick from the volatility. Computer-driven program trading began quietly enough in the early 1980s, when investment houses started employing advanced software to carry out, in a few minutes' time, complex transactions that previously took hours or days to complete. This gave investors the ability to buy or sell quickly a group of securities as if it were just one stock...