Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repetitive, accretion of detail. By now, length and weight have become an end in itself for Ophuls, a way of enforcing the audience's commitment to his work. Anything that demands this much of us cannot be casually dismissed. Too much, though, is streaked with irrelevancies: digressions and dubious stock footage; interviews with people who have no significant knowledge of Barbie's activities or are full of mind- numbing details about them; pointless sequences of Ophuls braving the anger of reluctant subjects or horseplaying with his crew...
When the U.S. stock market crashed a year ago, few investors were more shell- shocked than speculators who had bet on potential takeover stocks. Even by the sobering standards of Black Monday, their losses were devastating, and soon after the market collapse, as the takeover stage lay nearly deserted, investors began wondering whether the curtain had fallen on the best show in town...
...play is based on a stock premise. The members of the artistic and unconventional Bliss family have each invited one guest to their country home outside London for the weekend. The Blisses--Judith, David, Simon and Sorel--have romantic designs on their respective guests. As the weekend progresses the guests leave the Blisses who invited them and become blissfully involved with other Blisses...
...addition, eight companies in which Harvard continued to hold stock withdrew from South Africa on their own. Ten of the 50 remaining companies have also announced plans to withdraw...
Selective divestment calls for Harvard to drop its stock in companies with poor ratings under the Sullivan Principles and from companies selling strategic products such as weapons to the South African government...