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...first in The Office, then in Extras--mastered the cringe comedy of unaware arrogance have earnestly quoted Keats at me? This is a man who starts his latest stand-up comedy tour, to be aired on hbo on Nov. 15, by walking out in a cape and crown as giant letters spelling out his first name explode in the background. Could it be that Gervais takes the piss out of arrogance because there's so much of it in him? Because when you watch--and you must--the video of More to Lose, the early '80s single from his very...
...years later, Congress created Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., in part to give Fannie some competition. The firms became odd hybrids--government-sponsored enterprises (GSES) accountable to private shareholders. And they got away with holding only tiny capital reserves to insure against losses in their giant portfolios--partly because of their quasi-governmental status and partly because mortgages were supposed to be safe...
Lower mortgage rates make houses more affordable, providing support to the reeling housing market. But there's still a giant supply of unsold houses, and prices are still high relative to rents and incomes. So don't expect a big housing rally...
...local driver of the artist and crew, "We know where they're staying." In the end, the project appeared to have garnered a tacit approval, because by the final day, it had become clear that no one in the neighborhood was going to disturb the completion of the giant three-panel work. (One worry was that the trash would be cleaned up overnight...
Sure, there are some true grotesqueries to be found in the book. There's a wittily observed chapter on the weirdness that is Turkmenistan, with statues and giant photographs of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov everywhere: "In some he looked like a fat and grinning Dean Martin wearing a Super Bowl ring." As someone who's been to most of the places Theroux describes, that's the kind of sentence I want to read; the kind that makes me think, "Exactly!" (and "I wish I'd written that...