Word: woundedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some deals have fallen short of their fanfare. KKR hailed the purchase of Beatrice as the "deal of the century," but wound up getting stuck with businesses that have not yet found buyers. "Beatrice was overadvertised as a spectacular deal when it was really just a good one," said one investor. "Everybody's making money; they're just not making as much money as they thought they would, or as fast as they could...
...than $2 million. Although preview audiences cheered, in truth the play falls far short of its promise. The plot, which could only have been concocted by a media-shy celebrity, unfolds at a party where the host, a deputy mayor of New York City, lies bleeding from a bullet wound in the earlobe. He is too dazed to talk. His wife and servants are missing. Rather than call for help, the assembled friends launch a cover-up, avoiding scandal ostensibly for their host but also for themselves. Instead of hewing to the consistent if mad logic of successful farce...
...sleek and stylish car. So when the Los Angeles banker bought a new auto two years ago, she chose a $20,000 Porsche. That was the easy part. When she went shopping for auto insurance, two companies refused to insure the sports car. Stunned by their rejection, Kulas wound up with a firm that charges $4,600 a year to insure the Porsche and her husband's BMW. Says she: "This is outrageous. We're being penalized just because we have nice cars. We could buy another one for the amount we pay in insurance every year...
When House minority leader Robert H. Michel went high-stepping down memory lane last week, he wound up in the brier patch. In a televised interview, the Illinois Republican embellished a fond recollection of Amos 'n' Andy -- the old radio show denounced by civil rights organizations for its stereotypical portrayals of blacks -- with an eye-rolling imitation of the character Kingfish. Then he allowed that "it's too bad" that schoolchildren can no longer don blackface and appear in minstrel shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening...
...Crimson, picked by many experts to finish in first place this year, wound up 2-5 in the Ivy League, 2-8 overall, its worst effort since 1950, when Harvard went...