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...failure will mean to Main Street what Lehman Brothers meant to Wall Street," says Van Haroutunian, a lawyer at Ballon Stoll Bader & Nadler who represents small apparel firms - many of which have borrowed money from CIT. Haroutunian says he has gotten calls this week from more than 40 of his clients who are nervous about what a CIT bankruptcy would do to their business. "It's going to be a tremendous problem...
...remember having any contact with either a Palestinian or a Jew until 1976. A street game called ballon chasseur, or hunting ball, was catching fire in Lebanon. The game consisted of two teams of six in which one team player would throw a ball at a member of the other team. If the recipient caught the ball without dropping it, the ball thrower ended up a prisoner of the other team. But if the ball hit a rival team member and was not caught, the unlucky fellow ended up a prisoner of the ball-throwing team...
...consequently a hot item on the street, until Daniel Block walked into the picture. "Flash," as they started calling him, was a 16-year-old French Jew whose father taught painting at my high school. Though Daniel concealed being a Jew, he was boisterous about being the best ballon chasseur player and about having persuaded May Qudsi to let him peek at her underpants behind closed doors. May was not only my flame but a Palestinian to boot (in Arabic, Qudsi means "from Jerusalem"). One day I asked her if what Daniel said was true. At first she denied everything...
...therefore very pregnant. But the young women have already been nurturing three children whose personalities they assume now and then: the legendary French wild child, raised by wolves; an endearing little child prodigy; and the character who floats up, up, and away in the children's lit classic, "Le Ballon Rouge." The problem? Peter tires of this imaginary-children nonsense. The solution? Well, that can be the thorny bit, as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" aficionados know...
Blake, as Ruth, provides a similar stabilizing presence, tacitly brandishing her baby-on-board girth. Yet hers is a false stability, as she keeps alive the children fantasies, dutifully breaking up scuffles between the Wild Child and Le Ballon Rouge, even as they occur in one person. Blake hits the note of maternal cajoling perfectly...