Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoppard were not a playwright, he would probably be a magician-or a card shark. He delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
...became known that Houston's scrappy little Texas International Airlines had quietly bought more than 9% of National's stock; later it won Civil Aeronautics Board permission to pick up as much as 25%. As one Wall Street analyst put it, Texas International was a "sardine chasing a shark." Last week the swivel chairs in airline board rooms were spinning again as a whale declared its interest in National. Pan American World Airways, the fifth biggest U.S. airline, said it wanted to buy all of National's shares and was ready to spend $300 million...
...shark cage while the other quietly plunged into the sea with little protection. But neither Diana Nyad, 28, nor Stella Taylor, 46, completed her marathon swim last week. Nyad was thwarted in her Cuba-to-Key West swim by 5-ft. to 8-ft. waves and painful jellyfish stings. As for Taylor, she headed off for Florida from the Bahamas, but was forced to stop because of strong currents. Said she: "It was a great time...
Last week, however, Tony Pro was convicted of murder by a jury in Kingston, N.Y., and sent to languish among the other losers in an upstate jail. Found guilty of murder with him was Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg, 56, a New Jersey loan shark and extortionist...
Director Jeannot Szwarc goes through all the motions of making a horror picture, but he fails to realize that audiences like a dose of suspense along with the carnage. In Jaws 2, the mechanical shark rears its fake head at virtually every appearance and attacks with predictable regularity. There may be more casualties than last time around, but more proves to be much less. The prosaic shark of Jaws 2 becomes such a bore he might as well be a carp...