Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ellis Rabb's loyal counsellor Camillo, Richard Waring's King Polixenes, and Earle Hyman's rogue Autolycus are all superlative portrayals. These three actors are the finest classical speakers in the company, and they all are ever careful about how they use their bodies. Autolycus, an ingratiatingly light-fingered jack-of-no-trades, is a wonderful creation without a counterpart elsewhere in literature. And Hyman, in and out of disguise as well as in and out of other people's pockets, makes the most of him, with his funny figure-4 stances, his weatherbeaten hat and purple beard...
...Guild, only four months old, is the creation of 49-year-old Trumpeter Cecil F. Read. In 1956 Read led a revolt of Hollywood's Local 47, A.F.M. He protested the handling of the Music Performance Trust Funds, which collect phonograph-record and TV movie music royalties to use for unemployment benefits for the entire A.F.M. membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians...
...same quarter last year. Revenues were $1.66 billion, v. $1.57 billion last year. Said President Kappel: "While our current rate of gain is lower than in the last few years, nevertheless it is still substantial. We are confident, too, that growing America will continue to want, buy and use more telephone service tomorrow than today...
...tying up millions of dollars of company capital in buildings, he worked out a sale-leaseback plan. Under this system, Tishman sells a new building outright to a corporation (usually an insurance firm), leases it back at about 7% a year and operates it. The company can not only use its capital for other projects, but also gets a tax break. Its lease payments are counted as a nontaxable business expense; if it owned the building-and received the same amount as rent-the income would be taxable. Ten of Tishman's buildings are now operated under leaseback agreements...
...believes in them, while his mad friend does not care what values he upholds; in fact, he has none. Joe talks everyone to death in the interests of honesty, and the spirit of togetherness is symbolized by the fact that husband and lover are made aware that they both use the same brand of contraceptive...