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...Columbia. Lead singer Darius Rucker says the band was formed "to make a bit of money, drink a few beers and meet a lot of girls." That was nine years ago. On their major label debut, Cracked Rear View (Atlantic), the band still plays with frat- party swagger -- big, bearish guitar work, brawny drumming -- but Rucker's expressive, doleful vocals reveal an admirably serious intent...
...Washington, the War Room is buzzing with news of Ripper's strike. Things have reached such a frenzy that the bearish Russian ambassador de Sadesky has been admitted to the top secret chamber, spy camera and all. Peter Sellers appears again, this time as the balding President Muffley, a sort of Mister Rogers with backbone, who is determined to keep Russian Premier Kissoff from executing a retaliatory strike. Surrounded by hard-core war-mongering generals, his touchy-feely Red Line conversation with Kissoff, the missile attack blinking ever closer on the Big Board behind him, seems surreal...
...catalyst behind the unrest was Moshood Abiola, a bearish 56-year-old multimillionaire who is widely believed -- based on incomplete results -- to have won election as President in June 1993. He was deprived of victory, however, by General Ibrahim Babangida, who had ruled the country for eight years. Babangida charged fraud and annulled the results before they were published...
...Bearish Feelings on Brown...
This stampede into the risky world of stocks has only heightened concern that the market may soon come tumbling down. Never far from bearish minds is the 1987 crash, which saw the Dow Jones industrial average plunge 508 points on Black Monday. Even more frightening was the more recent, and more devastating, collapse of the Japanese stock market that began in 1990, when the bloated Nikkei average plummeted from nearly 39,000 to less than 15,000 in 2 1/2 years. Then there are recollections of the Great Crash itself, which have become part of America's memory. "People start...