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...riche excess of the place has not escaped Bowe, who jokingly calls the house "the Riddick Bowe Presidential Estate." But he adds, "I get a kick out of providing my family with the necessities and giving them things they don't need." Requests from his siblings have become so frequent that none now have his home phone number. Still, Bowe bought a $350,000 home for his mother, and supports his sister Brenda's four children and two other nephews whose mother is struggling with a drug problem. About a month after winning the title, he also bought marble tombstones...
...listed on the New York and American stock exchanges. A new fund opens for business every day. People can buy shares of an environmentally correct fund, or one managed by astrologers, or a venture capital fund that invests in companies owned by women. A California money- market fund offers frequent-flyer miles at the rate of one mile for every $10 invested for one year. Americans have poured more than $80 billion into mutual funds so far this year, already surpassing the record $78 billion for all of 1992. That has raised the total assets of U.S. funds...
...little-girl sound in Hanna's singing (and in her frequent screaming) has, I think, a political function: like the term "grrrl" (and the little-girl photo on the cover), it seems to me to be reclaiming girlhood as a time of empowerment, before the heterosex drive kicks in and spoils everything. (If I'm right, it's a strategy psychologists have validated: Carol Gilligan and others have shown that girls in America have much more self-esteem before puberty than after...
Danny Elfman is as much in his element here as Burton. A frequent Burton contributor, his soundtracks have finally found the most ideal visuals possible. Blending the hurdy-gurdy eeriness of Halloween with the jingle-bell enthusiasm of Christmas songs yields a varied collection of hysterical musical numbers. They range from festive yuletide riffs to a Cab Calloway parody sung by the aptly named Oogie Boogie...
Poor administration of the Expos program would result in few students opting for the course, while enthusiastic leadership that presents frequent new offerings and innovations in teaching methods would translate into a large enrollment. Clearly, both students and teachers of the department would be better served...