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...widow (Jane Fonda) and a financial wizard (Kris Kristofferson) that her husband was murdered. She is also in danger because her husband discovered how the oil interests were quietly draining resources away from Wall Street. Neither performer is particularly believable. The romance that develops between them is unfeeling, a sop to the audience's conventional expectations. Kristofferson, in particular, lacks the kind of ruthless intelligence one expects of Wall Street wolves; he seems the last person anyone would ask to explain puts and calls options...
...that coming out of the bathroom faucet. Those waves on the other side of the beach are clearly irrelevant to the casino owners, and they seem to be wishing for someone like Rosie, the waitress in the Bounty commercials, to come along with a giant paper towel and sop up the whole unsightly mess...
...families (who pay a higher rate than working couples simply living together) and incentives for saving. To finance both plans, it might be necessary to delay the date the first cuts take effect. That move would have the added appeal of reducing the budget deficit for fiscal 1982-a sop to Wall Street and conservative Congressmen...
...each dinner. "For several years now I have been studying the greediness of the rich," he explains to Jones. "They'll do anything to get their presents for nothing." And so, he goes on, will people accept any cruelty from God, as long as a sop is thrown to them now and then to forestall suicide. "For example," he tells Jones, "you are a poor man, so he gives you a small present, my daughter, to keep you satisfied a little longer." Fischer's doctrine is the most important clue in Greene's moral thriller; two climaxes...
...signature by foreign ministers would take place in Paris on Jan. 27. As a sop to Rogers, I had agreed not to attend the final culmination of these efforts. What we had struggled, prayed, hoped and perhaps even hated for-the end of our involvement in Indochina, and peace-was about to be celebrated...