Word: textbooks
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Throwing a sweater, a toothbrush, a Nat Sci textbook and a pint of Jameson's Irish Whiskey into a duffel bag, I headed out the door under the cloud of that typical all-nighter feeling. It was not to be a typical day, though, as I relaized upon stepping out into the grey early morning...
...rain and the curtain come down, we are left to ask, "So what?" It's sentimental, but why dig up the Minutemen from obscurity? Because the parallel drawn between John Sterge and Charlie Finaly is not so absurd. The Minutemen demise provides a textbook example of what may be the Appomattox of professional sports...
Sunday Woman. Despite certain charming touches, Sunday Woman could serve as a textbook model of how to make an unsuccessful mystery film. The director immediately plunges us into the heart of a murder investigation before we have developed the most casual interest in either the characters or the situation. This would not be so bad in itself, but though the film becomes progressively more involved with solving the murder, we are not given any meaningful information until the last five minutes, and then after the fact. At that point both murderer and arcane motive are brought in out of left...
Died. Benjamin Graham, 82, dean of security analysts and an investor who became a millionaire; in Aix-en-Provence, France. Graham's 1934 book Security Analysis (coauthored with David L. Dodd) remains a business-school textbook; more than 100,000 copies have been sold. The Intelligent Investor, his layman's guide to Wall Street, stressed the importance of the net asset value of a corporation's stock...
...cars, but many of the year-old ones are models that had been selling poorly. Once the best pickings are depleted, Ford is sure to lose its market share-and the U.A.W.'s target-company strategy will be at work in textbook fashion...