Word: stanley
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...were pariahs then, suitable for veneration now. Thus the hierarchy is upended. Novelists lauded in the '50s are forgotten now (don't expect a Sloan Wilson or James Gould Cozzens revival any time soon), while writers who were published only in cheap paperbacks (Jim Thompson) are heroes. Producer Stanley Kramer was the social conscience of Hollywood; yet his films receive little attention now (and if they do, it's dismissive), while Ed Wood gets a Tim Burton hagiography starring Johnny Depp...
Something went gloriously awry when Elia Kazan staged Tennessee Williams' poetic parable of antique Southern illusions colliding with postwar urban brutishness. The young Marlon Brando made Stanley Kowalski a manifesto for sexual menace that defines American acting to this day. The 1951 film version, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois, restores equilibrium without neutering Brando--a great play revitalized. It's in a topflight pack of six Williams adaptations that includes chats with surviving co-stars, TIME critic Richard Schickel's Kazan documentary and an early, quirky Brando screen test...
...ratings spiked to 12% of all opinions after the settlement, a sign that analysts were showing some backbone. But that figure slipped to 9% last year, reports research firm StarMine. "There are still far too many buy ratings, and analysts' [earnings] estimates are increasingly clinging around company guidance," Morgan Stanley strategists Henry McVey and David McNellis wrote in a recent report...
...seniors who attend the most senior bars. “Attending” simply means getting a card stamped, thus ensuring that loads of window shoppers can “pop in,” get a stamp, then frame the certificate next year in a Morgan Stanley office. Ideally, there would be a breathalyzer at the door—if you blow below a .15, no stamp for you, chief! Better yet, you would have to increase your blood alcohol content at each consecutive Senior Bar—then we’d really see who?...
...stock-market party may end sooner rather than later. Higher rates flow through the global economy in a myriad of ways by curtailing borrowing and curbing business activity. Higher borrowing costs hurt corporate earnings, which is ultimately reflected by lower stock prices. Andy Xie, chief Asia economist at Morgan Stanley, says the world's equity markets have been surfing on a "tide of liquidity" for the past five years?meaning investors have been awash in cash, thanks to the easy-money policies of the world's central banks. With interest rates low, no fund manager worth his bonus wanted...