Word: apartness
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...place even roughly comparable was the late 1980s, the decade that birthed LBOs, so called because firms got a lot of their buying power from debt, or leverage--particularly high-yield, risky junk bonds. Raiders feasted on bloated conglomerates such as Beatrice, buying them up, busting them apart and reselling at a profit--until the economy slipped into recession. The ensuing bankruptcies killed off the junk-bond market, and the deals dried up. The late 1990s saw a tech-driven LBO resurgence, but that too ended with the 2000 bubble burst...
...following year Mann made Raw Deal, which dispensing with heroes altogether. There are only victims and villains, and it's often not easy to tell them apart. A guy named Joe (Dennis O'Keefe) has been wrongly imprisoned, fingered by his old pals. He breaks out of prison and goes on the run with two gals, a nice social worker, Ann (Marsha Hunt), whom he takes as a hostage, and a tough gal, Pat (Claire Trevor), who helped spring him from stir. Both are doomed to be in love with...
...This wasn’t a premeditated development, to be sure. We certainly still enjoy playing basketball, and after three school years spent apart, it’s not that we irrevocably grew apart as friends. Instead, we’ve simply chosen to reapply our leisure time. Collectively, we have somehow found ourselves relocated to—dare I say it—more “adult” venues: bars, other cities, and less familiar blocks within our sprawling hometown. Unconsciously, we left Kips Bay to embrace the idea of doing new things with other people: other...
...Borges. Sitting in Cambridge, Borges encounters a younger version of himself who imagines he has stumbled upon the Rhône’s shore in Geneva. He then recalls Greek philosopher Heraclitus explaining how constant change makes it impossible to bathe twice in the same river. Four decades apart, the two Borges are utterly different men. The peace of the slowly drifting Charles contrasted the SUVs rushing on the other side. Everything seems to move faster nowadays: letters gave way BlackBerrys, caravels to Airbuses, and courting seasons to one-night-stands. A sort of immaterial internal combustion engine must...
...scene in front of them was all the motivation they apparently needed. Thick orange flames darted from between cracks in the rubble as rescue workers pulled apart blocks of smashed concrete to look for survivors and recover the dead, choking all the while on the noxious fumes from the explosion and the roiling clouds of dust and smoke...