Word: bucks
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...slot machines of the equity market. Care to risk a couple of quarters? It's tempting, with the established exchanges now brimming with household names like Corning in the penny-stock range. The fiber-optic-equipment maker was once a $100 stock. Now it trades near a buck fifty. Wireless-phone company Sprint is at $9.25; computer retailer Gateway, $3.58; Sun Microsystems, $3.66. How can you lose? But as anyone who has been cleaned out by a 25[cents] slot can tell you, this is risky territory...
...Phillips was not the fastest man with a buck. One reason Cash and Perkins left Sun for Columbia was that Phillips paid 3-percent royalties instead of the standard 5 percent. The boss retired a rich man - not from selling Sun Records, which he did in the late '60s, but because he was an original shareholder in another mid-century Memphis business, Holiday Inns...
...which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass drum is joined by a foreground tapping (presumably the rim of the snare drum), as if someone is keeping time on the mike with his buck teeth. In the bridge, Jerry Lee's left hand rumbles menacingly up to the break, when four-note poundings heighten the melodrama of the lyric: "You're fine, so kind/ Got to tell this world that you're mine mine mine mine!" Back to the verse, with more rumblings...
...interest costs. But they were also able to add $40,000 to the mortgage balance and still lower their monthly payment to $1,974 from $1,998. "Awesome," says Diane, 35. She's spending that $40,000 on home improvements, and expects to get a bigger return for her buck from them than from stocks. "My parents just lost $200,000 in the stock market," she says. "I saw what happened to them. I prefer to invest in my home...
...Good Girl tries to have fun with minimum-wage, dead-end America, and it does jerk some reluctant laughs out of us. On the other hand, like Chuck & Buck, the previous film by director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, it is rather too well disposed to near psychotic behavior. Deranged souls are not necessarily holy fools. And depressed ones--however subversive--are not in the end very funny...