Word: snared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seagram has retained two investment banking firms, Lazard Freres and Shearson Loeb Rhoades, in its effort to snare Conoco. Rohatyn and his Lazard Freres staff of only a dozen handled $10 billion worth of mergers last year. Shearson's group is led by Managing Director Mark Millard, 72, who in 1963 advised Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman to buy Texas Pacific Oil Co. for $326 million. Seagram last year sold Texas Pacific to the Sun Oil Co. for $2.3 billion; that money is now providing the bulk of funds used in the bidding for Conoco...
Harvard continues to hold stocks in companies operating in South Africa. Decisions to promote its professors are based not on teaching ability, but on how many books they've sold. Undergraduates here struggle not to learn, but to snare grades so they can attend the professional school of their choice. Tomorrow I will graduate from a University whose axis rests not on higher learning but on elitism and material success...
Kennedy School officials and students this week played down an article published in the Boston Globe, which stated that University officials snuffed out their attempt to snare President Reagan for their commencement speaker. Students denied they had even extended an informal invitation, saying they only inquired about procedures. In any event, President Bok blocked any further action, telling the K-School it would be inappropriate to invite a head of state to its separate ceremony...
...show to include salsa, mock country, and border-line disco. Their guitar sound has suffered a bit under the increasingly lackadaisical supervision of Keith Richards and Ron Wood, and the aged Bill Wyrhan has done little to improve his methodical bass playing. But Watts, now limiting himself to a snare, high-hat, and garbage can top, remains raw and on-the-mark. Jagger's singing has actually improved as he has tried new styles. Slowed down by countless women and residual effects of nearly two decades of group cynicism, the Stones can still rock through four-and-a-half minutes...
...still hasn't gotten over it: the song is like a river of tears, and Elvis's vocal is the most expressive of his career, choked yet fluent, cynical yet deeply innocent. It's a beautiful, intimate, cards-on-the-table number, with Pete Thomas's snare lightly searing your cranium. Trust contains, however, two clunkers: "Different Finger," another of Elvis's dreary, patronizing, untranscendent country numbers, and "Shot With His Own Gun," a song for your daddy with a tune too feeble to accommodate the tragic sourfulness Elvis pours into it. "Clubland" is diverting but stupid, with a deadly...