Word: ven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ven Parameswaran, 57, president of First Asian Securities, a tiny New York City brokerage, earned a $13,750 profit last Monday using the same method as Cafazza: put options. Parameswaran made such a gamble on 5,000 shares of National Semiconductor, a Santa Clara, Calif., electronics company, which zoomed in value from 25 cents to $3 a share as the stock price of the firm tumbled 2 1/4 points on Monday, closing at 15. "I could have waited and got $4.25 per share for the options," Parameswaran said, "but I was not greedy...
...friend, Cor Takes (John Kraaykamp), reminds him of that terrible day long ago. Objects Anton sees physically become the objects they make him remember. Even Anton's first wife, Saskia, bears a striking resemblance to the woman he met in jail (both are played by Monique van de Ven...
...acting in The Assault is excellent. Van Uchelen gives the young Anton the right mixture of wide-eyed horror and stunned silence, while de Lint successfully portrays the gradual transformation wrought by the stifled memories of the adult Anton. Kraaykamp is incendiary as the embittered Takes, and van de Ven is surprisingly expressive for an actress who, as the prisoner, must recite her lines in a whisper, with most of her face in darkness...
...what he is doing, marries a woman who looks like the Resistance heroine with whom he shared a cell on the night of the assault and who, it is revealed, also participated in it (both are played, with a spirit that warms this cool film, by Monique van de Ven...
...bounces up and down, patting the side of the machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down; it is all in the elbow and in her whispered incantation: "Seven-seven-seven-se ven." Both of them admit that they will squeal for any jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play the dollar machines, all three squeal together and draw a crowd five deep. "How much did they win?" people...