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...Skeptics claim that statistics such as these are biased in favor of equities because they are derived solely from long-term U.S. data. But the excellent historical returns of stocks are not limited to the U.S. Three U.K. economists - Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - have examined the historical stock and bond returns from 16 countries since 1901 and published their research in a book entitled Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns. Despite wars, bouts of hyperinflation and depressions, stock investors in all 16 countries examined enjoyed high returns that outpaced fixed-income assets...
...movie has no stars, few recognizable faces. And unlike so many American films, which cast gentiles in Jewish roles (Imelda Staunton, for example, as the stereotype mother in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, also about suburban Jews in the '60s), this one actually has ethnic-appropriate casting. The Jews here are sometimes broadly drawn - Larry's family slurps soup at a decibel level that even the Simpsons would find deafening - but they're fully assimilated. Nobody says, "Oy vey!" or talks shtick. If people answer a question with a question, the first would be Larry's plaintive "Why me?" when...
...film's Elliot (Comedy Central's Demetri Martin) is a New York City decorator who's come back to his Catskills home to help his parents manage their decrepit motel, which is facing bankruptcy in the early summer of '69. His parents (Brit theatrical lights Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton) are as eager for him to stay there forever as he is determined to leave. But when he reads that the Woodstock festival planned for that August has been denied a permit in a nearby town, he calls the promoters and invites them to White Lake and its neighboring town...
...sitcom-broad and contains a near libelous caricature of immigrant Jews. Maybe Elliot's mother really was a screaming, tightfisted tyrant, and his father the standard henpecked husband. And maybe Lee couldn't find American actors who'd fit his view of these cartoon creatures. But to outfit Staunton in a housedress that is gargantuanly padded in the bosom and butt is to force an exceptional actress into unintended parody, and to reduce the Holocaust-survivors generation to Borscht Belt jokes. Staunton has made a long trip south from Oscar-nominated actress to Vera Drake, yenta...
...biggest presidential birthday perk of all, though, may be the presents. In 1912 the people of Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's hometown, gave the President miniature ivory portraits of his parents. George W. Bush in 2006 got a belt buckle from visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and cuff links from his staff. But the best presents of all have been the priceless ones. On Nov. 2, 1920, Warren Harding returned from a golfing excursion to find 55 small pink candles on a frosted white cake. Then he sat back to await the election returns - and learned he had been...