Word: siegler
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Many of the other actors are limited in stage time or are confined by secondary roles, but Kevin Kain as Peter, the Mister Rogers clone who must listen to Jerry's ramblings, and Elijah Siegler as John Brown, the man who insists on treating a hospital as a hotel, manage to infuse their roles with humor and dignity...
Thoreau is, of course, the play's focus, and all the other characters seem to exist merely as his foils. Emerson (Elijah Siegler) is portrayed as a well-meaning, pontificating old man who is, at the end, rather pathetic because he does nothing to act on the ideals that he inspires in Thoreau. Other characters such as Thoreau's brother (David Javerbaum) who shares and makes corporeal Thoreau's ideals, and the man from the school committee (Ted Caplow) who attacks Thoreau for not sticking to the established texts, are also well portrayed...
...company hopes the promotion will boost sales. In particular, Searle thinks the money-back guarantee will encourage doctors to try prescribing several new drugs, including an anti-ulcer pill called Cytotec, that the company plans to market soon. But many doctors are uneasy about the strategy. Says Dr. Mark Siegler, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Clinical Medical Ethics: "Inappropriate guarantees from the drug firm threaten to undermine the doctor-patient relationship...
...insider-trading disclosures rose in volume, a number of big plays suddenly came to a halt. Wickes, a Santa Monica, Calif., retailing and manufacturing conglomerate headed by Sanford Sigoloff, 56, announced that it might not be able to carry out the estimated $1.7 billion acquisition of California's Lear Siegler, the aerospace and automotive-products concern. Sigoloff's bankers, spooked by the Boesky scandal, apparently balked at financing the deal...
Other merger bids were seemingly not affected. Undeterred by its frustrated advances toward Lear Siegler, Wickes announced it would proceed with a $1.16 billion bid for New York-based Collins & Aikman, a textile concern. In California, First Interstate Bancorp is continuing its more-than- $3 billion bid to win giant BankAmerica...