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...motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers spurious opinions on contras and condoms. Junk food, junk music, junk opinions. Where are we? Where is the nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations in the 90s on the FM dial. Back in North Carolina, somewhere south of High Point, National Public Radio's All Things Considered had come through...
Children's TV, of course, is not an unredeemed junk pile. PBS and cable offer much quality fare. Most of the networks' Saturday-morning shows are gently inoffensive (The Smurfs, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies) and occasionally adventurous (Pee-wee's Playhouse). Some of the wit and imagination of pre-TV animation have even resurfaced this season in CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from Filmmaker Ralph Bakshi...
...morning after, and the dream of painless prosperity has been punctured. But what a wild binge it was! Speculative fortunes built on junk bonds and stock manipulations helped paper over the cracks in an economy beset by sluggish investment and productivity. Some of the best minds of a generation marched off to make millions as market mavens, embracing the greed- and-glory smugness that suffused both Wall Street and Washington. An economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured...
...lovely phosphorescent powder was unlike anything Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, had ever seen. Her father, a junk dealer in the Brazilian city of Goiania, discovered the mysterious substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating...
...superabundance of financial innovation is another factor reminiscent of the 1920s. During that time, investment trusts and utility pyramids were the rage, while the 1980s has been a boom time for such techniques and instruments as leveraged buyouts, junk bonds and stock-index futures. The common element is vast leverage, which creates the potential for big profits during a booming economy but equally dramatic losses when the tide goes the other...