Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samurai (at the Telepix). A superior Far Eastern "Western," recounting the life of the legendary Japanese warrior Musashi, powerfully portrayed by Toshiro (Rashomon) Mifune. Handsomely color-photographed, this won an Academy Award as "best foreign film." For those whose Japanese is shaky, there are excellent English subtitles...
...Share. It also gets a prime profitmaker. Though Superior's $1,825 per-share purchase price seems very high (46 times earnings), Texaco knows that the reason is due to a curious bookkeeping quirk. Superior charges off all drilling costs in one year against overall earnings, rather than amortizing such capital expenses against individual properties over a period of years. By shifting to standard accounting, the net per share would double, and the price-earnings ratio drop to about...
...Superior's Chairman William Keck does just as well. With 51% of Superior's 422,264 shares, he and his family will get $413 million in stock. The swap is nontaxable, since no cash changes hands. The only tax is on the income from their 5,168,500 shares of Texaco. Annual income, at Texaco's current $2.35 payout: $12.4 million...
Soon afterward, Fred became a teacher at a Catholic school for boys. After a quarrel with the brother superior, he stole the school's station wagon, learned to drive as he went skidding down to Boston, got drunk and woke up the next morning as a buck private in the U.S. Army...
...borderline schizophrenic with a document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of the real me dies." On the nature of his gifts: "I am a superior sort of liar. I don't tell any truth at all, so then my story has a unity of parts, a structural integrity. [It] sounds more like the truth than truth itself." On the leading passion of his life: "It's rascality! Pure rascality...