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...Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...
Instead of ending the affair, however, the Du Pont-Conoco merger announcement merely unleashed a new flurry of financial maneuvering. Within four days, Texaco quietly arranged $5.5 billion in credit from a group of banks led by Chase Manhattan. Pundits speculated that Texaco was gearing up to boost its bid for Conoco or pursue another oil company. Meanwhile Edgar Bronfman, Seagram's tenacious chairman, was mulling his own countermove. He called his board of directors into a special session. The verdict: up the ante. The new offer: $85 per share for 51% of Conoco stock...
...turbulence from a passing passenger aircraft. Then a helicopter and a small plane, both apparently filled with photographers, began jostling him as well. He warned he would have to land. Just in time, Ptacek's colleagues-following by car from Cormeilles to the coast, and in a chase plane with MacCready on board-managed to get rid of the troublesome aircraft with the help of French air controllers, who threatened to revoke the pilots' licenses...
...Hound is a chase movie, an essay in dramatic movement comprising approximately 360,000 drawings and 110,000 painted eels, projected at 24 frames a second. As Tod and Copper learn more about themselves and each other while on the run, so the young Disney artists making their feature-film debut here realize the emotive and kinetic power of animation in the chase sequences. They are as finely shaped and paced as the desert drive in Raiders of the Lost Ark-and almost as violent. More important, they suggest a dimension of conflict within as well as between the antagonists...
Today, Quraishi moves among international bankers with ease. Almost every day financial pilgrims to SAMA check into Riyadh's sumptuous Inter-Continental Hotel near the bank's headquarters and await an audience with Quraishi. Even David Rockefeller, recently retired chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, was once spotted in the Inter-Continental lobby whiling away the time before his appointment...