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...Somewhere in the middle of the boom, though, Wall Street figured out that analysts weren't journalists. Wall Street was in the business of making money, purely and simply, and this was a herd-driven, Ponzi-scheme kind of time, in which all prophesies were self-fulfilling...
...delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without stepping outside your front door. Of course, that was back before the piranhas - and their old-fashioned emphasis on profit - took over...
...with the people onstage, for one thing. The late composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson earns our tears even before we walk into the theater. He died, tragically, of an aortic aneurysm just weeks before his soon-to-be-a-hit Rent opened. Now one of his earlier works, Tick, Tick...Boom!, has been revived off-Broadway. It's a slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement...
...piece of the action. Then he was in a closet; standing outside himself for the second time that day, he watched someone named Boris Becker drunkenly sire a daughter. "I had no idea what I was doing," he says. "It wasn't an affair. It was just poom-bah-boom...
...been undervalued, compared to Paris and most other French cities, says Merle, but prices are climbing. They could rise further as new arrivals compete for scarce housing, possibly pushing out locals of more modest means. It's also not certain that the wealth and jobs being created by the boom will benefit native Marseillais. There is still a labor shortage, even though unemployment remains at 17%. Despite the new training centers, many of these unskilled workers are unemployable in the high-tech sectors on which the city is basing its future. Marseillais could close ranks again should they feel left...