Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIDNEY FREIDBERG...
...torrent of analytical advice that pours from Wall Street is hardly noted for its literary style, much less its wit. "We send a great deal of literature to our clients-most of it deadly dull," says Sidney Homer, 65, research partner of Salomon Bros. & Hutzler, one of the Street's largest bond dealers. Last week, however, Salomon Bros, was mailing its clients something different: a privately published book of Homer's needling sallies at the very serious world of bond investment...
...Negro. They're often in the position of starting off conversations with such corny, ill-phrased, and nonsensical conversation pieces as Will Mays, or Jim Brown, or James Brown or any other things they can associate with black people. Many can only go on stereotypes, scenes they remember from Sidney Portier pictures, and the like...
...interested in having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl," said Sidney Poitier, after having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? "I'd much rather have romantic interludes with Negro girls." So he dreamed up a plot, handed it over to Screen Writer Robert Alan Aurthur, and stepped into the leading role opposite Abbey Lincoln in For Love...
...dippy-hippie son, rousingly played by Beau Bridges, decides that the only way to keep the home fires burning is to fire up Ivy with a romantic interest. He recruits Poitier with the threat of exposing his illegal gambling operation. Says Sidney: "What makes you think I'd be a good stud?" Grins Beau: "All spades are superior at that sort of thing." Poitier naturally falls for Ivy, and they bounce from bed toward bridal suite, strewing their path with petals of social commentary...