Word: sugarplum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 100 types of options, mainly agricultural products, has not been allowed on U.S. exchanges. But in recent years some inventive firms began selling in the U.S. options supposedly traded in London (some were; some weren't). Usually business was drummed up by fast-talking telephone solicitors telling sugarplum tales of immense profits. The day the ban was announced, the CFTC said it was investigating 30 of the 40 or so companies now dealing in options...
...talk she did. In her galloping, heavily accented English, she liked to say: "Banks tell me I am a top business person. They say to me, you have such a mind. The bankers can't even follow." Adela spun sugarplum stories of wonderful "deals" through which she could help people multiply their money by buying land in Spain and selling it for huge markups, or by shipping Japanese cars to Indonesia, or by getting into the import-export trade. And a lot of folks, credulous and captivated, begged to get in on the action...
...fancy pants. Now when he surveys the results of the revolution he began, he is not altogether happy. He coolly divides women tennis players into four categories. In Class A, of course, are the stars. He wishes he designed for Evert, but notes, "Anybody can dress a sugarplum fairy. The challenge is Margaret Court. She walks like the Queen of Sheba, but she plays like a gorilla. I have to bring out the Queen of Sheba...
...little significance in The Music Lovers. Its arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture. In Women in Love, Ken Russell turned D.H. Lawrence into tinted steam. In The Music Lovers, he makes Tchaikovsky step to the Dance of the Sugarplum Inverts. Women are thoughtless children or carnivores. Men are smirking androgynes or long-faced straight men like Modeste, Peter's brother. A classic exchange has Peter saying, "Sixth Symphony, Opus 74. It's too cold." Replies Modeste: "I'll give you a title-'The Pathetic...
SKIDMORE COLLEGE Charles E. Goodell, L.H.D., Senator from New York. Melissa Hayden, D.I.et., ballerina. Teacher, author, wife and mother; Saratoga's and the world's very own sugarplum fairy and also firebird...