Word: tape
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...wobbly as the short-term ententes formed among the characters. Screenwriter Laura Jones, who so bravely and audaciously recontextualized last winter's Portrait of a Lady, shows a disappointing, almost slavish devotion to Smiley's prose. In fact, the movie's first half-hour plays like a book on tape, with transparent thumbnail characterizations ("I guess you remember that Rose always says what she thinks") and redundant observations ("We all understood that something important had just happened...
...time that Kennedy and Johnson installed the taping equipment in the White House, it was not illegal to record a conversation if one of the people voluntarily consented to it," says Zelikow, a former trial lawyer. "We have this unique period in a sense between 1962 and 1973 when thousands of hours of deliberations of the most powerful government in the world were being tape recorded in real time...
...ended in the most humiliating way possible for any woman: Hewitt sold their story in a trashy account, Princess in Love, which was said to have left her heartbroken. Following Hewitt was an equally disastrous relationship with James Gilbey, which ended in scandal when a tabloid publication printed a tape of a private phone call between them. Then came a rugby captain, Will Carling, and then a prominent businessman, Christopher Whalley. Next, Diana was said by the tabloids to have fallen in love with a Pakistani-born heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan, whom she reportedly hoped to marry; except the intensity...
...Wall Street. Four blocks from the New York Stock Exchange and eight stories up, fund manager James Cramer is up and shouting with the market bell, greeting the first move of the tape with his usual salute: "There goes Swifty!" Cramer picked up the incantation at a dog track in his youth (Swifty was the mechanical rabbit), but he's used it to start trading since the day two years ago when, he says, he had "a huge up day" after muttering the phrase. Cramer, who manages hundreds of millions of dollars for a group of 38 rich families...
...trade every day, with a feverish enthusiasm fired by the glee of making the right bets and the crunching agony of picking a loser. In the course of a day's trading, the firm will be in and out of 50 stocks, betting millions on tiny ticks of the tape. Cramer, whose 22% compound annual return over nine years marks him as a winning investor, is perhaps an even greater show. He spends most of the trading session jumping up and down out of a very worn chair, shouting orders at the calm traders who surround him. Says Cramer...