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...year 2000, Metropolis shows plutocrats living in idle pleasure while workers slave away underground until a spectacular rebellion sets them free. This was reminiscent of H.G. Wells' 1895 dystopian fantasy, The Time Machine, in which a subhuman race called the Morlocks lives underground and emerges to devour the humans who live above...
There's also the hunger for having it all, a voracious desire to devour life--and food. Aside from the Mexican chow consumed during this late-afternoon interview, a solicitous valet furnishes Travolta with a box of chocolate ladyfingers, mere snacks "to tide him over" until dinner. Lunch can be an orgy of steamed lobster or an artery-choking beef Wellington. His sister Annie marvels at this "Vanderbilt" life-style, where 24-hour chefs cater to any food fantasy. Even during a marketing powwow for Primary Colors, Nichols recalls, "everyone brought along sandwiches except John, who was served four...
Searching for a "cherry waffle knit" to stave off the February chill? Dying for a "sky popover"? If you have a hearty appetite, you can devour pages of seemingly delectable delights--pages of the latest J. Crew catalog...
...that dividends are taxed as ordinary income, a marginal rate of up to 39.6%, while long-term stock gains are taxed as capital gains, a much lower rate of 20%. So it makes sense for companies to use their cash to buy back stock. Yes, a bear market could devour this strategy. But as long as the tax code clearly favors capital gains, dividends will dwindle--and nothing would make that plainer than a healthy blue chip wiping out its dividend altogether...
Among those of us who have resisted growing up, it's an article of faith that we can put off growing old. We work out, we eat poached salmon, we devour alternative-medicine nostrums while gobbling antioxidant vitamin supplements, just in case. We don't ask the first baby-boomer President for much--not for universal health care, not for campaign-finance purity, not even for a tax cut. But we do count on him, as the emblem of our age, not to give in to the ravages of time. He was re-elected in part because he complied...