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What gives with Visa? One possibility is that the company and its investment bankers are deluded and the IPO will crash and burn--but the current thinking on the Street is that it won't have trouble finding buyers. Another is that the financial types who've been crying crisis have been crying wolf. But the housing market is in its worst slump since the Depression. Some debt markets have completely stopped functioning. The overindebted American consumer is showing signs of great stress...
Ballard liked to think of his books as radical, "a desperate attempt to prove ... that two and two made five in the moral arithmetic of the 1960s." Many critics preferred old-fashioned math, though, and by the time of Crash, his 1973 tale of erotic pleasures amid the carnage of car wrecks, even his own publisher's view was that "this author is beyond psychiatric help." As if to prove that a new moral compass was at work in inner space, Ballard's book attracted little controversy until 23 years later, when the shock-horror director David Cronenberg brought Crash...
...said. “Brad and Evan were just being physical down there, playing as well as I’ve ever seen them play.”“Princeton isn’t really a big team so we thought we could crash the boards effectively,” Unger said.And crash the boards they did. The Harvard big men dominated play on the inside, as the team put in 17 second-chance points (Princeton had six) and held the advantage on points scored in the paint (46 to 36). The duo combined to shoot...
...tracked down not by super-sleuthing or political back-channeling, but because of the fanatically assured driving skills of a lone government agent. The film also has echoes of a few other cluttered frescoes that play out in a limited time-frame: Vantage Point, reduced to essentials, is Crash starring Jack Bauer...
CHRISTINE M. EVANS (CME): That’s a really tricky question. My favorite play is always the one I am working on in the moment, and at the moment that’s “Trojan Barbie: A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides’ Trojan Women.” It is having a reading in Providence in about a week or so. But I love all my plays when I am doing them. I would feel like a bad mother if I had to choose just...