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...mistake. By the time I loaded Bill's footage into iMovie--a total of about 150 unique clips--I had lost control. There was no way to search for a particular slice of the action, and the clips themselves were starting to freak out on me. Some bits I thought I had cut would resurrect themselves on the clip palette. Others would go black, disappear or simply refuse to play, feigning lack of memory...
...week, and on weekends for up to 12 hours straight. "I love playing. I tried to give it up and haven't yet succeeded," Talerico admits. Scottish, Irish and English ballads are the usual melodies from this man, but his eccentric repertoire has drawbacks. "Sometimes I feel like a freak show...
...created a married couple whose newborn baby gets taken away by Social Services. The parents had left their child out on the lawn and watched soaps all day while the kid wailed in vain. Another day I made a pair of bored, unemployed roommates--one a neat freak, the other a slob--and watched them get into fistfights as flies buzzed around heaps of garbage in their dingy living room...
With such good news, why did Wall Street freak? In a word: inflation. A report by the University of Michigan showed that consumer confidence soared in January to an all-time high, suggesting that the consumer spending binge is far from over. Other fresh signs emerged showing that the scarcity of workers is driving up labor costs, as Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has long warned it would. The Labor Department said the employment cost index, which measures how much worker pay and benefits are rising, surged 1.1% in the fourth quarter--the biggest increase in nearly six years...
...gripped the whole northeast; we are still facing large disruptions in the climate. Larger, that is, than the tornado that ripped apart Oklahoma City, the hurricane that created over $1 billion in damage in North Carolina or the $4 billion in damage caused all across northern Europe by freak windstorms last December...