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...devestating assault on social mores. The underside of Jeffrey and Sandy's courtship is sadomasochistic sexual initiation, and the institute of marriage is lampooned by intentionally overbearing organ music. Though Lynch seems deadset on satirizing the family, Blue Velvet exudes a romanticism for it akin to that of National Velvet. Perhaps he's saying you can regurgitate your cake and eat it too. Pardon...
John Harvard's "graven image will make thePostal Service more viable--for sellingcollector's stamps is akin to forgotten traveler'schecks and unused airplane tickets--as costsnormally associated with such product sales arenot incurred," Casey said in a dedication speechthat elicited a steady stream of laughter from thepacked forum audience...
...abandon a system of fixed commissions for brokers. The Exchange will also drop a traditional separation between the brokers, who execute stock and bond trades for their clients, and the so-called jobbers, who handle the brokers' orders as well as manage their own hefty accounts. This upheaval, roughly akin to Wall Street's May 1, 1975 plunge into a newly competitive environment, is scheduled to occur...
...another era, the selling wave would have signaled a stock-market catastrophe. But, surprisingly, there was nothing akin to a major panic on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week, even as the four-year-old bull market took a sudden nose dive and the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks suffered its largest single-day decline in history. Only six days after breaking through the 1900 level for the first time ever, the Dow plunged 61.87 points, to 1839, on the week's opening day. On Tuesday the bears were again on the prowl...
...Rumania's First Lady, but her true role is more akin to royal consort and heir apparent to her husband President Nicolae Ceausescu. In his grim dictatorship, she increasingly appears to be the power behind the throne. Already Elena Ceausescu, 67, is the object of a personality cult that rivals that of the 68-year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even...