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Balzac had a "vague dread" of being photographed. Like some primitive peoples, he thought the camera steals something of the soul -- that, as he told a friend "every body in its natural state is made up of a series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, wrapped in infinitesimal films." Each time a photograph was made, he believed, another thin layer of the subject's being would be stripped off to become not life as before but a membrane of memory in a sort of translucent antiworld...
...dread going back, because there I come face to face with my shortcomings. In the faces of those children I see a reality my generation won't be able to change, because none of our grandiose plans for making the world better will bring to their eyes the sparkle they never...
...latent dread of junk-bond investors is that one really colorful case of corporate distress might set off a selling spree in the volatile market for the high-yield securities. Last week their fears shot to the surface when Canada's Campeau Corp. said it might default on its debt, which is in part composed of junk bonds. That disclosure sparked the market's worst drubbing since the Crash of 1987, as traders rushed to dump their holdings. During the week, junk-bond issues fell in price by $10 to as much as $130 for each $1,000 in face...
...experts in Europe and Washington predict that he has less than two years to complete his reforms and get the store shelves filled with the things his workers want to buy. If Gorbachev fails, his audacious political rendition of Surfin' U.S.S.R. could suffer the fate that wave riders most dread: a wipeout...
...words. If he produces more, he notes with a laugh, he invariably writes less the following day. On average it takes Naipaul about a year to compose a book. "I'm with it all the time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves the writer arched backward with...