Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elusive mood to sustain. Finally, there is Brecht's thesis, that war is a continuation of business as usual. He strips its so-called heroes and victims of their epaulets of duty, honor and grief and exposes them as avaricious brokers on the floor of a bloodstained international stock exchange...
...March) and foreign operations are producing mounting losses. Standard & Poors has downgraded the company's bond rating, and a group of antimanagement stockholders anticipates that the 900-per-share dividend will be eliminated. Besides conserving cash and issuing 20 million shares of a new preferred stock this year, Chrysler may sell off some of its money-losing operations. Reason: it must spend $7.5 billion over the next five years to modernize North American plants and develop new models...
Money in hand, Curtiss-Wright might have Kennecott make a cash distribution of some $20 a share to its own stockholders. In that case, Curtiss-Wright would get back $66 million on Kennecott stock that it paid around $77 million to buy. Berner's preferred alternative is to have Kennecott buy back half its 33.1 million outstanding shares for about $40 each-including half the stock that Curtiss-Wright bought for an average $23.42 a share. Other Kennecott stockholders might find Berner's plans attractive. Kennecott management is sure to find them a tempting target for that...
Tribute is a rich play, not brilliant but solid. The characters who surround the protagonist--his sympathetic ex-wife, tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays...
Aurora's is the only solo role that permits any real dramatic subtlety; the other soloists are either stock characters or vehicles of sprightly choreography, with only the vaguest relations to plot. Anamarie Sarazin's Evil Fairy was a gratifyingly serpentine siren, complete with green dragon wings, gaudy sequins and decadent black stockings a la Toulouse-Lautrec; the wedding guests, from Tom Thumb (Tony Catanzaro) to a White Cat (Debra Mili) were equally charming and improbable...