Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mortgage seeker knows, S and Ls and savings banks do not now have much money available for new home buyers. Many S and Ls are quickly reinvesting any money deposited with them in high-yielding, short-term certificates of deposit with major banks, an understandable move aimed at getting a greater return than is paid for long-term mortgages. But this has resulted in a decline of the money available for mortgages from $99 billion in 1979 to $71 billion last year...
Christopher Randolphe plays an excellent Faustus, and is best in this scene as the enthusiastic and heedless seeker of gratification who signs a blood pact with the devil, turning over his soul in return for 24 years of all-power and all-knowledge. Strutting about the stage in a black medieval scholar's cloak over a tuxedo, Randolphe makes a powerful spector, and the audience can immediately grasp the depth of Faustus' commitment to his pact...
When Reagan flew back to Los Angeles Friday for meetings with his advisers on Cabinet appointments, he left a capital suffused with good feeling, how ever transient. By adroit use of pageantry he effectively communicated an important message: he means to begin as a consensus seeker rather than a hard-edged ideologue, a man who will try to win the cooperation of the permanent establishment rather than govern over its opposition...
...more imaginative home-seeker, those aren't the only ways to be happily (and cheaply) housed. A funeral home in Evanston, Illinois, provides a student with living quarters in exchange for answering the telephone at night and occasionally acting as the home's representative at wakes...
...thrives on the perks that accompany his celebrity but wants adulation only from a distance. His fame chokes him; he depicts his claustrophobia with several wide-angled tracking shots that subtly distort the faces of his fans until all seem ugly and deformed. "Just write," says an autograph seeker, "'To Phyllis Bernstein, you unfaithful lying bitch...