Word: chasings
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...year career during which you’re constantly justifying paused motherhood, carpal tunnel syndrome (which I may have already acquired while editing this piece of work), a graying husband, a four-year period of needles and frozen sperm, a lower chance you’ll be able to chase your grandchildren around the yard, and much lower chance you’ll be alive to attend their graduations. Do I see the paint peeling on this white picket fence dream...
...servant and savior, is mute. He conveys his always justified anxiety via minute twitches of the most eloquent movie eyebrows since Groucho's. At the climax of each film, Wallace's handyman hubris has put the duo in an awful dilemma that can be resolved only with a thrilling chase. Domesticity restored...
Swensen Individuals absolutely cannot get it right. Most of us feed our winners and kill our losers. But with investments, if something is going well, we need to think about paring back. If it's going poorly, we need to think about nurturing it. The evidence that people chase winners is overwhelming. It's not all their fault. Mutual funds advertise funds that have done well--just before they start...
...Flightplan” lies in its subtleties—in its application of fast-moving cuts and disjunctive editing. The quietest moments of stillness, soft cues of music and whispers, and Foster’s restlessness project as much tension and charged anxiety as any proliferation of explosion-powered chase sequences might...
Ingenious though a lot of this detail is, Memoirs provides far too much of it. The chase, often gripping, also goes on too long, though the bond between Halloway and his relentless chief pursuer -- the one person he can talk to and who truly understands him -- lends an intriguing psychological edge to the action. First Novelist H.F. Saint, 46, a Manhattan businessman, clearly knows his financial world and takes it none too seriously. Analysts, brokers, commodities traders are all wickedly caricatured, and in one of the book's most fascinating passages, Halloway's invisibility affords sweet revenge on the market...