Word: sours
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...Gremlins, is itself a dreamscape confected from congenial old slices of apple-pie Americana. Norman Rockwell might have painted the town's Main Street and the faces of the folks who stroll down it on this peaceful Christmas Eve. Frank Capra, Hollywood's master of sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would...
...most visible trouble spot was Continental Illinois, the seventh-largest U.S. bank. Aggressive lending to energy firms and other ailing borrowers has filled its books with $2.3 billion in sour loans. After rumors that the bank was about to fail led to a run on the Chicago lender, Morgan Guaranty and 15 other big banks last week rushed to Continental's rescue with a $4.5 billion line of credit, the largest ever for an American bank. Its goal: to help avert what threatened to become the biggest collapse in U.S. banking history...
...ominous rumor about Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank, people generally listen. Reason: the whispered tales have often been true. Continental, the biggest banking company (assets: $41.4 billion) between San Francisco and Manhattan, has during the past two years established an unfortunate record of making loans that go sour. In 1982 it suffered a major blow from the failure of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank, which had sold Continental $1 billion in shaky energy loans. Currently, its beleaguered borrowers run the gamut from Argentina to International Harvester. During the first quarter of 1984, Continental's problem loans...
Mondale seemed back on course after a harrowing March, but to get there he had to steer a low road. His aides say that their candidate will continue to pummel Hart "until we beat him." They realize that the strategy could suddenly turn sour, but they also recall that, when Mondale was on the high road, he began to lose, and badly. Taking the offensive helps Mondale conceal a fundamental weakness in his campaign: to many voters, the old-line Democratic Party that he stands for has no driving theme. At the same time, Mondale's verbal jabs...
...aroused unusual ire; one academy member was angered enough to make an unprecedented public complaint. Critics quickly chimed in, charging that Golding's work was not up to Nobel standards and that a number of worthier candidates had been overlooked. Defenders countered with accusations of literary elitism and sour gripes...