Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Jonathan Miller's swift, funny rendering of an often lugubrious work was not so much a revival as a rediscovery. It proved that O'Neill's lyric family tragedy can work as gritty naturalism...
...Wright's swift leap into a controversial issue was nothing if not characteristic. Capitol Hill observers learned long ago that the 16-term Congressman and former House majority leader never backs away from a fight. Nor did the new Speaker, a former Golden Gloves boxer and a decorated World War II bomber pilot, retreat under fire on the tax issue. "I have not called for a tax increase," he said. "I have suggested postponing any further tax decreases for the very wealthiest taxpayers." Says Christopher Matthews, a former aide to Wright's predecessor Tip O'Neill: "Wright is going...
...relationships and love interest. Moreover, it is difficult to write a parody much funnier than the real Miss America proceedings. And it is hard to keep audiences interested in the climax -- which entrant will win -- after repeatedly telling them it shouldn't matter. Curiously, Smile works. It is a swift-paced, skillfully performed and thoroughly professional entertainment that balances amusement at the shallow ambitions of the characters with respect for the depth of their feelings. Composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) and Author-Lyricist Howard Ashman (Little Shop of Horrors) have written touching songs for the stars, Anne Marie Bobby...
...example, Fort Worth's Sid Bass and his brothers bought and sold 9.9% of Texaco's shares for a swift profit of $300 million. Manhattan Financier Saul Steinberg earned $60 million that year by buying 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions and then reselling it to the company at a premium, a practice known as greenmail. Boesky made much of his fortune by guessing -- and sometimes knowing -- where the corporate raiders would strike next. Says an eminent Washington securities lawyer: "The millions and millions that are made out of nonproductive deal making represent the collapse of real morality in our markets...
Boesky's appeal to investigators lies in the central role he has played in so many takeover deals. As practiced in the go-go stock market of the '80s, the corporate- takeover game often resembles a feeding frenzy; even in perfectly legal situations it brings together, in a swift sequence of events, raiders, arbitrage specialists like Boesky, financiers and brokers...