Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it be useful. He wondered in those last days if his own life had been useful, and many thousands of readers assured him that it had. Lewis died at 80, but he was fairly young when he did the bulk of his most useful work. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be," cried Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. Not always. Poetry replies to Rabbi Ben with A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and comes up with no more startling a conclusion than that a life is what one makes...
...time phenomenon--possibly even a result of inaccurate accounting--fueled by high government spending. The primary problem is that Japan's financial structure--everything from the way companies are managed to the amount of government debt--remains badly out of sync. Many Japanese companies are still chugging along as if it were 1981, complete with overweight overheads, inefficient manufacturing systems and "jobs for life." Japan's banks, long loaded with bad debt, have yet to write off many loans they know will never be repaid. And the nation's public finances--badly strained by years of gigantic "stimulus" packages...
Livent, meanwhile, careened into bankruptcy. Most of the company's assets--theaters in New York City, Toronto and Chicago, along with the rights to current shows and projects in development, including a new version of Pal Joey and The Seussical, a musical based on the works of Dr. Seuss--are about to be acquired by SFX Entertainment, a U.S. company with lots of concert and theater business but little of Drabinsky's creative vision or panache...
...wears a poker face on the bench, but sometimes Chief Justice WILLIAM REHNQUIST just can't stop his irrepressibly jaunty side from shining through. His "Old Fashioned Sing-along," for example, is considered a highlight of the annual 4th Circuit Judicial Conference. This year, however, some lawyers took exception to the inclusion of Dixie in his songbook. Many consider the Confederate marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered...
Lately, however, 64-bit consoles like Nintendo and PlayStation have lost a little of their punch. Maybe it's because PC games have improved so fast--along with PCs themselves--while the quality of the consoles has stood still. Or maybe it's the advent of the more powerful 128-bit Sega Dreamcast that my pals and I have been testing...