Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite. The traders here talk mostly in verse: "That's $80 million on his initial three. And that's from taking a risk instead of a fee." The setting is a stage, and quips fly as fast as stock tips. Serious Money, a new play by Britain's Caryl Churchill, opened last week at Manhattan's Public Theater. The comedy is already a critical and popular smash in London's West End, where it has played to sellout audiences since July. Written as a bawdy, irreverent look at the greed that, in Churchill's view, has permeated London's financial...
Other competitors say they have been followed by teenage girls in the local shopping malls. One says he was spotted by a guy in the fast lane on the expressway who felt compelled to congratulate him at 60 m.p.h. Kim Buchan has actually had people tear at her hair and clothes. One time, when Madonna was due, a television film crew had Buchan dress up and drive around Chicago in a limousine. "People mobbed me. They thought I was Madonna. They thought I was Rosanna Arquette. This guy came up and said, 'Who are you?' So I was supposed...
...weighty enough to put up against Gorbachev; he is handsome, easy, youthful-looking ("What year were you born in?" Gorbachev asked him. 1940). Walter Cronkite would have looked more mature, Dan Rather more aggressive (though when he feels the need to, Rather can play respectful). But Brokaw can be fast on his feet, and was well prepared. His usual interviewing style, honed in years of showbiz chatter on the Today show, is to be friendly, ingratiating, nonthreatening. In Moscow, Brokaw was so uncharacteristically solemn that he sometimes covered his mouth as if determined not to grin back at Gorbachev...
...student protesters squared off almost daily against riot police. Instead of succumbing to civil chaos or a new military crackdown, the country defied all odds by laying down the constitutional groundwork for democratic reforms and advancing with astonishing speed to next week's election. Having come so far so fast, South Korea remains uncomfortably aware of the danger that, as in Haiti, an edgy military just might step in and undo their gains with equally astonishing speed...
...thought that the commission would get so far so fast. Both the chairman and vice chairman of the original presidential panel resigned last October amid reports of internal bickering. The same month, in the largest gay-rights demonstration ever, 200,000 marchers in Washington protested the Administration's handling of the epidemic. Even so, the 13-member commission, now led by retired Admiral James Watkins, produced a 25-page report that decried the lack of resources and information needed to combat AIDS . "It is the firm belief of the commission that there is much to be done," the document concluded...