Word: tame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic anti-hero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect...
...trunk, fancy waffle grille and such flashy features as a wall-to-wall rear window, snap-open gas-tank cover, wood-paneled dashboard. The Barracuda, which began in 1964 as a jerry-built fastback body mounted on an old-fashioned Valiant chassis, up to now has been a pretty tame fish in a very turbulent pond. The completely new Barracuda, whose prices will start at approximately $2,500, comes out just in time to catch the hottest new car market since compacts first made their appearance. The demand for "specialty" cars, with their bucket seats and 150-m.p.h. speedometers...
...down its old scandal-tinted image, but Wall Street conservatives still regard the Amex as a place where speculators seek action in risky, low-priced shares. Last week, in the first study ever made of investors who actually buy and sell there, the American Exchange looked like quite a tame market place. Based on a survey of 8,000 stock trading deals last May 25-a relatively quiet day in the market-the A.S.E. reported that: > Institutions such as banks, insurance companies and pension funds-whose securities business has been heavily concentrated on the Big Board of the New York...
...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic antihero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...virtually the only prop is the boiler. This behemoth is a triumph of mechanical indigestion, hiccuping, squealing, glug-glugging, roaring, and occasionally subsiding with a grandiose belch. Anyone who thinks the machine will subdue the man is in for a head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance, balmy panic and total inertia: "I'm satisfactory all right. Always been...