Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McCoy, as he reminds himself over and over, is The Master of the Universe. The top bond trader for a prestigious Wall Street firm, Sherman McCoy wears his invincibility in the form of cashmere overcoats and tailored suits. His Park Avenue apartment, and even his social-climbing wife, are all marks of his Master status...
These effects are meant to be balanced by a love story, or rather two competing ones: the conventional passion between a handsome young vicomte and a chorus girl, and the dark, obsessive bond between that same young woman and the Phantom, who seeks to win her devotion by making her a star. The maiden is thus expected to choose between outward beauty and the beauty of the soul and, in protofeminist fashion, between status as a rich man's wife and acclaim as an artist in her own right. As befits a fantasy, she gets both by virtue...
Other motorcade news. During a ten-minute Bush stop in Alden, Iowa, a Secret Service agent halted all traffic at the main intersection. Knowing Iowans' impatience with such inconveniences, Bush Aide Rich Bond furiously urged the agent to allow the traffic to flow freely. The agent refused. At last report, he was being transferred off the V.P.'s security detail...
Pierce Brosnan's James Bond-ish chase-on-top-of-a-moving-train for Diet Coke reportedly cost more than $1 million to film, and it was a disappointment. The commercial tries to cram too many tense moments into too few seconds. The viewer spends so much time trying to firgure out where Brosnan is--hanging off a train or clambering on top--that there is no time to get scared. And then it ends--with Brosnan sipping his soda happily ever after...
Public Service had been struggling for months to stay out of bankruptcy court. It has defaulted on unsecured bond issues totaling more than $700 million since October and faces lawsuits from three banks representing creditors seeking to take control of the utility's property...