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...retiring Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones industrial stock average zoomed to a new peak of 2572.07. The dollar, which had spent much of the past two years in a free fall, seemed to be holding its own. After hearings that Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire described as a "love feast," the 20 members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee voted unanimously to recommend Greenspan's confirmation. The full Senate is expected to approve the nomination before Volcker completes his term this week. Even Proxmire, who voiced philosophical differences with Greenspan, concluded, "I think you are a remarkable...
Verses from a Republican hymnal? No, just a few of the burns inflicted by Democrats on one another last week at a dinner sponsored by Independent Action, a liberal political-action committee. The original idea was engagingly ironic. The seven Democratic presidential candidates would feast on the foibles of New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, the popular recalcitrant whose internal clock says 1988 is not his time. The Seven Dwarfs take on the big guy. But the celebrity roast became a multilateral immolation, as if each candidate wanted to keep his rivals short...
Meanwhile, the Class of 1952 will have the opportunity to whale watch, take a harbor cruise, and feast at a clam bake. The Class of 1937 will attend various symposia, including one given by Sissela Bok, dine and dance, while observing the changes that 50 years have brought to Harvard and Cambridge...
...film Alien Prey features a bloodstained vampire who feasts on a dead woman's entrails through a hole in her stomach. Make Them Die Slowly proudly proclaims 24 SCENES OF BARBARIC TORTURE, including a scene in which a man slices a woman in half. Flesh Feast reveals "body maggots" that consume live human beings, pulling the skin off their faces before working their way down...
...Sunflowers was exhibited, behind bars, to long queues of curiosity seekers at Christie's. Then the Ascension, or auction proper, in which Vincent's glorified body was raised to the empyrean in 4 minutes 30 seconds, a rate of climb of $147,700 per second. And third, the Eucharistic Feast. After the sale, Christie's brought out a savory cake in the form of Sunflowers, the frame made of flaky pastry, the colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green bits done in spinach, and detail added with studdings of seeds...