Word: herds
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...supreme recorded example of Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more," runs the last line of the chorus. Each of four renditions of the phrase takes you on a spellbinding journey of his vocal arsenal - swooping, clipping, playing with the beat, riding herd on the back-up band. In those lines, as with the rest of the song, you never know where Jones is going to lead you; at the same time none of it sounds forced or contrived. The whole happy confection is aided by the spare production of his first producer...
...index flirted with in mid-July and late August before sagging each time to its current 3400-range lows. Statistically, an index tends to find parameters for each phase of its behavior, and the sunniest outlook emerging from Wednesday's mini-bounce was the idea that the trading herd won't take the index any lower than that "floor" of 3400. (Of course, some were claiming today that a further shakeout has to hit - 3200, 3000 - before the NASDAQ can rally back for real...
...Tonight, as the clock in the Square shows 2 a.m., a herd of tow trucks descends on Mass. Ave. The city sweeps the streets early in the morning, and anyone who has left their car out overnight faces a tow and a $100 fine. The tow trucks whoosh down the street like giant insects, pausing only briefly to grab a car before vanishing into the night...
Years? No one frets about herd behavior when it's the bulls who have everyone brainwashed--as was the case last year. Who didn't enjoy that historic 86% jump in the NASDAQ? The gain overwhelmed economic fundamentals, though. Fueled by our faith in technology and the riches minted in previous years, mass psychology swung to the greed side, and stocks were viewed as a bargain at any price...
...interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...