Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mercier and Camier is stillborn in its transition to drama at Joseph Papp's Green wich Village Public Theater. One can understand what impelled Adapter Neumann's strenuous and occasionally imaginative effort, since the book was, essentially, Waiting for Godot in its earliest and distinctly embryonic state. The two title characters (Frederick Neumann and Bill Raymond) are as close as barstool buddies, and they stumble and blather about in a bleak inscape of metaphysical despair. Despite intermittent japery, they are triste, petulant atheists who resent the fact that they haven't found God in their Christmas stockings...
Eurocurrency began as an offspring of the cold war. After the 1956 Hungarian revolt, Soviet officials feared that the U.S. would seize the dollar deposits that Moscow had in New York City banks, so they transferred the cash to London. After moneymen began lending the state less dollars to companies in Europe, U.S. bankers and businessmen recognized a promising new source of capital. The lending of hard foreign currencies soon spread out from London. Among the first to handle such loans was the Soviet-owned Banque Commerciale pour I'Europe du Nord in Paris, which has the telex address...
...case, the money fund yield is not so large as it seems. The interest paid by most funds is subject to federal, state and local income taxes, just as are savings...
Charles builds a model of the house, furnishes it and plays moodily with a Laura doll, a husband doll, a daughter. In the state government office where he works (the state happens to be Utah, though not much is made of the fact, and the film's lo cation could just as easily have been Penn sylvania), he shoves papers into his Out box without reading them and swigs vod ka from a pint in his desk drawer. Laura does not call...
Alex's most notable failures were at tempts to establish a permanent studio of his own and to mastermind British Lion, a major, state-subsidized effort to stabilize the British film industry after...