Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Summer Players shift into the comic, despite an increase in movement on stage, the pace slows surprisingly. Because of the abnormally swift passage of time, there is an understandable loss of continuity which accounts in part for the sense of slowness. But a welter of buccolic buffoonery only enhances the discontinuity which in a production of some length (running time is four hours) is regrettable. Schmidt might have cut the longish fourth act or at least dropped one of two dance sequences...
...stunned bookmakers realized they were on the hook for a possible $28 million. Gleeful gamblers were already calling the caper "Operation Sandpaper" because it rubbed the bookmakers the wrong way. Fifty of the biggest bookies in England-from Joe Coral and Ladbroke's to Jack Swift and William Hill-gathered that evening at London's Victoria Club. The bookies agreed to call the betting on that particular race null and void. All money wagered on the race would be refunded...
...Jersey Standard came Ford with $8.7 billion, General Electric $4.9 billion, Socony Mobil $4.4 billion, U.S. Steel $3.6 billion. Chrysler, the only newcomer to the top ten, sped from twelfth place to seventh as sales increased from $2.4 billion to $3.5 billion. The laggard among the leaders was Swift, off from tenth to twelfth on a slight sales decline...
...disenchantment was swift. During Argentina's 1962 recession, stockbrokers hauled Natin into court to collect their commissions, and investors stormed the courts in panic. Natin was bounced in and out of jail three times on various charges of fraud, bad checks and "economic delinquency...
...Carpetbaggers, based on the baldly sleazy bestseller by Harold Robbins, is the kind of movie that you cannot put down. Like the book, it scores its cheap success as a swift, irresistibly vulgar compilation of all the racy stories anyone has ever heard about wicked old Hollywood of the '20s and '30s. The titillation is masked as the biography of a fresh young tycoon whose interests -airlines, moviemaking, starlets-bear certain obvious though wildly embellished parallels to the career of Howard Hughes...