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...years as depositors withdrew their funds to chase after the high interest rates available from money-market mutual funds, commercial banks and savings and loan institutions were at last freed by regulators to offer federally insured free-market interest rates of their own to small savers. The result: a breathless nationwide scramble by banks everywhere to exploit their new-found freedom and snatch depositors back from the money funds...
...tattered bags. Nemy not long ago got in a classic OOR with her column about her own shopping bag ladies--the women who after a tough day at Bloomingdale's must maneuver through the streets and into their taxicab overburdened with purchases. The gist of the column was a breathless admiration for those specially blessed women who manage never to appear overburdened--and a coy suggestion that these women must have legions of servants secretly following a few steps behind and carrying all their bags. More savvy still, they may even have all their purchase delivered...
...Does a mysterious organization, capable of controlling human history, really exist in some secret galactic refuge? Edge opens with an answer: Of course. It then proceeds to describe the rivalry between the altruistic Foundation and two less noble competitors for the heart and mind of the cosmos. As the breathless plot caroms on, Asimov winks at his audience. Interplanetary rocketeers not only take advantage of hyperspace (folds in the fabric of the universe) to bridge the light-years between one solar system and another; they also use English and credit cards. Rare is the author who can resume a story...
...oriented as some. After he hands in his second successive book report on something called Smokey the Cowhorse, his teacher suggests that guy wrote another book?" he asks. "Yes, just look in the library," she says. As Dillion's eyes widen, he slumps in his chair and says, with breathless surprise...
Amidst her blatant passion for Sloan, various other subplots unfold--including the homosexual relationship between Ed and Sloan and the father's recognition of Sloan. All these developments climax in one explosive monologue by Sloan, revealing his depraved and destructive past. Samols leaves us breathless from this speech and his ensuing violence, which finally lead Kath and Ed to a brutal fight over Sloan...