Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them. "Generics are caught in a squeeze, which is why only half the 24 publicly traded companies in the industry are profitable," says Jerry Treppel, an analyst at Warburg Dillon Read. Mylan is in the potent half, having earned $100 million on revenues of $550 million last year. Its stock price closed last week at $27.31, down from a recent high...
...more modestly endowed mate. Trouble is, all the other peahens are fools for those huge tails and may turn up their noses at the short-tailed sons of their practical-minded sister. So, the evolutionary strings are pulling us in two directions: Go for the geek with the Microsoft stock, says Mating Program A. No, wait, says Program B, did you see that adorable rake with the earring and the black leather blazer...
...what's wrong with real estate? Plenty. Anyone who sunk money into publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, has been scorched badly. Last year the average REIT stock sank 17% while the Standard & Poor's 500 soared 27%, and REITs' dismal showing has extended into early 1999. Never have REITs lagged the market by such a wide margin. They're more out of favor than a home with peeling paint and shag carpets...
Unfortunately, the screenplay (by Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan) goes downhill from there, and the stock Freudianisms-initially the objects of satire-start to take over. Worse, the film begins to take them seriously. The story of Paul's guilt over his father's murder (a murder he witnessed) contains every cliche imaginable, and could have been ripped wholesale from a Z-grade movie-of-the-week. The cheap psychology is necessary to the comedy, but it gets bogged down in its own lack of depth. Paul's cathartic moments feel as if they were intended to be touching...
Even the Godfather in-jokes, which started sowell, degenerate at points into stock silliness.The shot-for-shot recreation of the assassinationattempt on Don Corleone is funny enough, but itplays like one of Billy Crystal's Oscar-hostingstunts (and was probably meant to). Most of theother in-jokes are subtler. One of them caps off ahilarious comic sequence involving a fewquasi-crooked FBI agents; the joke so cleverlyplanned that it seems to have ended before thefinal superb surprise. The final in joke includesCrystal's "consigliglieri" speech--a parody of the"I will not seek vengeance" bit in The Godfather.While several sections...