Word: sir
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...financial-services areas, including securities, Eurobonds, commodities and foreign exchange, will be governed by a series of self-regulatory organizations. Their activity, in turn, will be supervised by the Securities Investment Board, a private-sector body whose decisions are backed by the force of the law. Says SIB Chairman Sir Kenneth Berrill: "The aim in the U.K. was to get the rules applied and interpreted by practitioners, and not by lawyers." Now, even some Conservative Party members feel that a tough U.S.-style Securities and Exchange Commission is needed. Says former Prime Minister Edward Heath: "I do not believe that...
...young protagonist of A Nite-Lite, acted with appropriate repulsiveness by the playwright, he is returning home from work, dressed respectably in suit and tie. His initial encounter with the motionless, battered body beside his front door arouses his sense of pity. He addresses the formless mass politely as "sir," and even brings out a plate of food. But as the homeless person fails to acknowledge these gestures, the young man grows increasingly annoyed and impatient. He begins throwing scraps of food at the human heap of rags and soon dumps the entire plate, as well as a bottle...
Butler opens with the imminent death of Sir Robert Charles, who is the current Minister of Defense and the patriarch of a poor but prestigious family. Having recently had a heart attack, Sir Robert is more dead than alive, surviving only with the aid of various life-support machines. Lady Charles has decided to put him out of his misery and pull the plug--much to the pleasure of heir apparent Hugo and his twin sister, Annabel. Planning ahead, the family has placed him in a coffin right in the middle of the Charles estate drawing room. The youngest...
Just as the ceremony is about to take place, however, Sir Robert is mysteriously murdered by other means. An Inspector Harris appears to solve the case, and the ensuing chaos is pure Python bliss. The secrets of the Charles family are both surprising and hilarious, but this reviewer isn't telling anything...
Well, Dewitt can assure you that, despite its frequency and general popularity, war is indeed hell. Not that Dewitt has actually fought in one, prefering as he does to follow the example of Monty Python's Sir Robin and bravely run away. Dewitt has, however, seen several years' worth of war films including the Reagan classic Hellcats Of The Navy, a must-see for devotees of our main man's foreign policy. Unfortunately, Hellcats is not playing anywhere around Boston this week, but there are several other worthwhile alternatives...