Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nimble as a house number that, when budged, somersaults from a nine to a six, revealing the new neighbors' address as 666, the sign of the Antichrist. But like many a Hollywood Voltaire, Dante wants his Candide candied. This is satire that hedges its bets. By the end, Ray and his friends must be heroes as well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims. All of them are "neighbors from hell," but the old residents are revealed to have done the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. And so Dante, like the viewer...
...widening the losses at insolvent S & Ls, the rate increases may drive up the cost of the federal rescue, which under Bush's plan could cost $200 billion during the next three decades. By week's end, though, the ailing S & Ls began to show some restraint. Rates on six-month CDs fell to 9.5% at Commonwealth and 10.1% at BancPlus...
...chosen to play Michael Dukakis in preparing Bush for the debates. "One of the reasons he was picked," says Bush's media adviser, Roger Ailes, "was his reputation for being aloof and arrogant, just like Dukakis." Though tough in the sparring, Darman softened his performances with humor. At the end of one mock match, he entertained Bush by donning a tank helmet like the one Dukakis wore in a TV ad. Next round, he displayed a pair of Heavyhands, the weights Dukakis uses in speed-walking. In the critique sessions afterward, Ailes says, "Darman was great: warm, funny and very...
...gasoline. It would come to about 50 cents per gal., but there would be no other auto-insurance premiums to pay. You would be fully covered, after a $500 deductible. Collecting the premiums automatically this way would save a fortune in selling and administrative costs. And it would end the problem of people driving uninsured...
...Near the end, the narrator of this riveting novel refers to all that has gone before as "this story of a boy's adventures." Some boy. Some adventures. Both are as far as they could be from innocent visions of Tom Sawyer or Horatio Alger. Even discounting a particularly bloody penultimate encounter, Billy Bathgate directly witnesses two murders and helps dispose of the body of a third victim. In each case, the perpetrator is the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz, ne Arthur Flegenheimer, Billy's self-described "mentor" and as romantically dangerous a father figure as any lad could desire. Billy...