Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arbitragers who like to speculate on corporate takeovers were the big winners in a bidding war for Babcock & Wilcox Co. (TIME, Sept. 5). As soon as United Technologies Corp. made an opening tender offer, the arbitragers began sinking $100 million-much of it borrowed-into purchases of B & W stock, starting at $42 a share; they quickly bought up more than a quarter of the outstanding shares. Then they sat back happily while United and J. Ray McDermott Inc. made escalating rival offers for a controlling interest in Babcock, and eventually wound up selling out to McDermott...
Redlich starts out somewhat weakly but soon develops into another multi-faceted underling. With the somewhat stock role of the reformed alcoholic who lost his wife to drink and is now "always 20 minutes early to work every day," Redlich convincingly believes in Jesus and still hates all of those around...
...Lavette never forgets that he is just the unmannered, uneducated son of an immigrant fisherman. The Depression is therefore a kind of blessing for Lavette, because it stops the game. Instead of jumping out of the window of his office to splatter on the streets of San Francisco when stock prices begin to plummet, Lavette, after a stint as a bum, leaves his business suits in storage and contentedly returns to the life of a fisherman, the life his father and countless generations before him had known...
...Dream went sour. He imparts a feeling for the rich variety of life that was swirling in America while the Gross National Product expanded. Fast is, above all, a splendid storyteller, a chef whose recipe is a rich blend of human incident and emotion. And he has an ample stock of ingredients...
This time there is no struggle and no enlightenment: Bertrand is just a flip Don Juan-a stock comic figure who resolves all of life's dilemmas by retreating to adolescence. Despite Denner's amusingly self-effacing performance, it is hard to care about him or, worse still, the women he damages along his selfish way. Truffaut's vulnerability and sweet tragic sense are strangely absent here; this film is just depressing...