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...ganging up on him, and by God, he'd beat them, and he'd show he was right. There is that conviction that he would triumph, that he would be proven right. Now, that's not psychohistory, but I think that's the answer. Otherwise, then he's a fool--and I really don't believe that at all. I think it's the sin of pride he might preach against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Not What We Were Looking For' | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

...fears over the $227 billion oil windfall profits tax that President Carter signed into law last week. But investments from such savvy money havens as New York, California and Europe continue to flow into Colorado. Says SEC Regional Administrator Robert Davenport: "The Denver market operates on the 'greater fool' theory. Irrespective of a company's merits, people will buy its stock because they reckon a bigger fool will come along later to buy it at a higher price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Denver Pennies | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...most interesting of the no wave survivors. James Chance continues to subsume himself into his own ego and prejudices, Mars and DNA run circles around themselves and their past achievements, but Lydia Lunch has reached out to embrace new experiments. Don't let her cold stare and chubby cheeks fool you. Dada...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: Dada for Lunch | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...Cordelia too complex, and her Fool too simple, Jenny Cornuelle portrays both parts with haunting skill. But when the special effects do not smother her, she delivers some of Shakespeare's most beautifully ironic peotry with quivering power...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...mailbox empty after a few more flops like this film. By muffling his talent it loud strains of self-adulation like his most recent buck-snatching endeavors, Martin is eliciting the disgust of many of his early fans. Navin may be a jerk, but Martin is a fool...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Jerk-of-all-Trades | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

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