Word: wrench
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Even if these scenes didn't wrench us out of the normal world, perhaps, the story would, for it is often as difficult to fathom as the wanton brutality. Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu, as landlord and peasant, are bound together, unable to abandon either their friendship or their class positions. The two were boys together: DeNiro always following and admiring the peasant Depardieu; but their friendship was always flawed because, as Depardieu says, "I caught the frogs your family...
...that he is quitting because of ill health. Says he: "I've had a great shortness of breath for the past five or six years. I really couldn't go on with it. I just can't breathe." He admits parting with his characters is a wrench: "I keep thinking of all kinds of things to do with Li'l Abner even now. But he's had the most fantastic run for 43 years, and I think this is a decent...
...without losing control-the r individual owners of the bank holding company's stock-including Ball himself -voted to buy the estate's stock for $18 a share. Thus Ball maintains his clout in the banks' affairs. In an eleventh-hour effort to wrench control from Ball, Mills came up with another buyer, Hugh Culverhouse, Mills' law partner, who offered $18.50 a share. Despite Culverhouse's higher bid, the court refused to block the Ball-engineered sale of the stock, and last month the Federal Reserve gave its reluctant blessing to the deal...
...using natural gas will be compelled to switch to coal as soon as possible. The cost to U.S. industry will be incalculably huge; the utility plants alone will be required to spend an estimated $75 billion on conversion. Tax credits and federal loans will be given to sweeten the wrench. Plants that cannot convert from gas will be taxed for its continued use. The energy plan may allow some relaxation of antipollution laws in order to speed up the transition to coal...
...when all the discussions about their revelation took place. One thing became very clear from that discussion: the so-called 1-1-2 plan, with freshmen living in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard, and juniors and seniors in the River Houses, had few supporters and had a monkey-wrench effect on the discussion. Most of the discussants spent so much of their time and energy trying to kill this plan that it diverted them from drawing up constructive recommendations. Now, totally blind to that history, the task force has sought to revive that option. The report labels...