Word: bankrupting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were cabala. Hoffman, one of the shrewdest young actors in the business, manages to be at once predator and victim. But when the film tries to make the audience care for the characters, it proves bankrupt. For beneath the Manhattan chatter and the glossy confrontations, John and Mary is as empty as a singles bar on Monday morning. Leaning on the stars' reputations, it never bothers to show who the lovers are, or how they got to be that...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, foresees financial ruin if Greenberg's suit succeeds. "If Harvard lost its tax exemption, it would be broke within twenty years-literally bankrupt," he said...
...will be a failure if most of you let it stop at 4 or 5 o'clock. Today is only a beginning." It was a thoughtful group, not one inclined to swallow any spoon-fed dogmatism. When a bearded teacher began to criticize "our corrupt society" and "our bankrupt electoral system," one woman in the audience objected quietly but firmly that she was there to protest the war in Viet Nam, not the state of society or the electoral system...
Marks of Hell. Gardner's fight talk is brilliantly accurate. The true pathos of fighting as a subsistence trade, he shows, comes not from scheming and exploitation but from the slow corruption of courage and spirit. "Fat City," as fighters sometimes call success in boxing, is bankrupt. The long sleek cars, the sweet shock of public recognition, the feel of silk on skin is, for most fighters, pure celluloid fantasy. Their daily rounds are marked instead by steady pain and a sameness that is itself the mark of most hells...
Recognizing Heikal's influence, the controlling family of the highly influential but nearly bankrupt Al Ahram approached him in 1956 with an offer to run the paper. Within two years, with Nasser's support, he had put it in the black. Today its circulation approaches half a million and its plant is as luxurious and modern as any in the world, with British presses, West German engraving equipment, and a U.S. computer system that sets Arabic type by means of punched tape...