Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laid-back precincts of Manhattan. He has the terrain down pat. The film unfolds in chic SoHo lofts, Upper East Side high-rises and glittery mock-deco bars. The characters are people who favor art by Paul Davis, go to sleep to the purr of the cable-TV news ticker, wear Adidas sneakers when jogging and fall in lust while shopping at Bloomingdale's. They are well-intentioned people, but they have a sad habit of wounding each other. Mazursky -whose sensibility is half John Cheever, half Jewish mother - wants to love them...
...Year's Eve, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks closed at 1004, its year-end record. By the final bell last week, the widely watched indicator had dropped 19%, to 815. The mood on Wall Street, among the brokers and traders whose heartbeat is the daily ticker, has turned from despair to anger. Says Peter L. Bernstein, an economist-consultant to large institutional investors: "We hate stocks, we hate ourselves and our customers hate...
PARTICULARLY AMUSING is the use of props. During the stock market scene, as the quartet bewails the fickleness of finances, Cookie Harlin sings the words from the ticker tape. Later on, the group marches out in their ties and tails, then cavorts around the stage in an outrageous array of feathers and jewels--gaudy enough to make Flo Ziegfeld envious...
...were the fitting climax to a series-and a season-of explosive unrest in Yankeeland. Even in the glow of victory, half a dozen Yankees want to be traded to other clubs during the offseason. Some of them underscored their discontent by skipping the team's victorious Broadway ticker-tape parade the day following the series...
...drop was due to the W.S.J. article about Conway's remarks. Low acknowledged that Savin was having a dispute with Ricoh about royalties on the copiers, but added that Ricoh was continuing to deliver machines under a contract that runs until 1989. The Dow Jones ticker, operated by the company that publishes the W.S.J., ran an item, but initially omitted the point about the contract, since both Low and the reporter agreed that it was old news. Later the ticker did add information about the contract-but by then there had been additional heavy selling. Low asked...