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Four of the five Senators met for an hour with FHLBB head Edwin Gray on April 2, 1987. In a letter written to McCain last May, Gray referred to this unprecedented intervention as "tantamount to an attempt to subvert the regulatory process," and subsequently branded DeConcini a "consummate liar" for not admitting that he attempted to cut a deal for Keating. His charge was buttressed when the Arizona Republic published a confidential memo prepared by DeConcini's staff for the meeting listing Keating's bargaining positions...
...bomb was allowed to keep ticking for two more years. Fortunately for Keating, FHLBB head Gray was replaced by the very sympathetic M. Danny Wall, a former aide to Utah's Republican Senator Jake Garn. Wall transferred responsibility for Lincoln from San Francisco to Washington. At House Banking Committee hearings on Oct. 17, L. William Seidman, head of the Resolution Trust Corp. and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, criticized Wall for keeping Lincoln open. As a result, the federally guaranteed cost of paying back Lincoln's depositors went up $1.3 billion, to $2.5 billion. Nationwide, the whole debacle...
...Ovid's story of the gods' revenge on the rebellious earth giants. These bearded, stumbling palookas in their peasants' breeches, crushed by the fall of rocks and masonry, are done with literally colossal gusto. The whole windowless chamber seems ready, for a moment, to totter and fall on your head. No room in Italy gives you a clearer sense of the mannerist delight in bizarre illusion. If one could imagine a halfway point between Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes and the gee-whiz delights of Walt Disney, this would...
Priced at $90, the toy is more expensive than the average stocking stuffer. But it comes with headphones, a high-resolution screen and an accessory called Video Link that enables players to hook two machines together for head-to-head competition. Not all the games involve zapping; some call for role playing. Nintendo hopes the diversity of the games will help attract girls, who represent 25% of Game Boy's following...
Tongue-in-cheek humor also lifts Freddy's Nightmares above the jolt-'em-out- of-their-seats level of its theatrical namesakes. Freddy (Robert Englund) can still be one ruthless customer: in the season opener, he sliced off a woman's head, which plopped to the floor like a ripe pineapple. Most weeks, however, he serves merely as the wisecracking narrator for unrelated stories revolving around dreams. Many are unexpectedly lighthearted; a few even approach satire. In one of last season's entries, a yuppie career woman had a thirtysomething nightmare about having a baby: her boss replaced...