Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice start but it also turns out to be one of the very few moments of humor in the script. The rest of this solemn movie follows the next five years of Maurice's life as he transforms himself from a callow undergraduate into a cultivated city stock-broker, all the while guarding his secret from the Dean, the police and London society...
Murder, kidnapping, wizardry, and fair damsels in distress are all ingredients in the film's stock, but Reiner's adaptation of William Goldman's revered 1973 novel lacks the zest of a classic like The Three Musketeers or even Raiders of the Lost...
...recoup his investment and time, Gilbert has proposed a novel way to sell scientific work which has important ramifications for university research; he believes he has the legal right to copyright his discoveries and sell them. Much like Dow Jones sells its stock quoting service to stockbrokers, Gilbert would place his genetic map in a large computer database and charge pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an access...
...impasse, she turned to her dream journal, spending up to two hours a day for more than a year analyzing the entries. The effort, she says, gave her the confidence "to be more assertive in work, to make the split from a male friend and to start playing the stock market...
...Pentagon accuses the Commerce Department of letting computers and other sophisticated gear slip into the hands of the Soviets. But advocates of freer trade point out that U. S. restrictions are tight enough to cost the country $9 billion in lost sales every year. -- Investors find profits by taking stock in bankruptcy. -- A new book tells how the Chinese vanquished famine...