Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEATLE who seems most interesting as presented in Hunter Davies' book is, not surprisingly I suppose, John Lennon. He displays a personality by turns ironic, tender, farcially funny, bitter, nasty, generous, and deeply despairing. His attitude towards the world, towards art, the Beatles, himself, his family, his past is always ambiguous, usually ironic and tinged with a definite sadness...
...side, is of the Beatles telling a boy to have courage and make the plunge to claim his girl ("You have found her/Now go and get her"). When the Beatles are urged basically the same thing in "She Loves You," they openly and joyously exhorted; "Hey Jude" is inexpressibly tender, muted and moving. The push into passion that the Beatles delicately say for their friend...
Enough Schenley stockholders accepted a tender offer to give Riklis' Glen Alden Corp. 88% control of the big distiller (1967 sales: $518 million). Fat with $323 million in working capital, Schenley was a tempting merger plum. As befits Riklis' guiding philosophy-described as the art of buying companies with their own money-Glen Alden is paying for Schenley mostly with promissory paper. For each H Schenley shares, worth about $85 in the stock market, Schenley stockholders get $13 in cash; they also get a $100 debenture that pays 6% annual interest until its 1988 maturity. Riklis can thus...
Whatever management changes may be ahead, the acquisition apparently ends the career of Schenley's eccentric founder and chairman, Lewis S. Rosenstiel, 76. Before making his tender offer for the balance of Schenley stock, Riklis persuaded Rosenstiel to sell his own 18% controlling interest for $75 million in cash. Riklis also personally bought Rosenstiel's six-story Manhattan town house for $350,000. "Mr. Rosenstiel," said Riklis last week, "has indicated his desire to retire...
...outside of the piano. In Love No. 2, he riffles the strings, producing a wiry thring that scrolls around Charlie Haden's bass. With more songful tunes, such as Everything I Love and Margot, he applies his agile touch to the keyboard and produces some lyrical, tender moments reminiscent of Bill Evans' playing...