Word: junks
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...slump makes a wry analogy for the performance of another J.M.: Jack Meyer, a.k.a. Junk issues and Mismanagement. The president of the Harvard Management Corporation has been acquiring unforced errors recently at the rate. Morris was signing autographs in the fair weather...
...bomb blasts spreading fire and smoke through United Nations headquarters and a lower Manhattan skyscraper that houses, of all things, the New York offices of the FBI. Other explosions the same day in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson River, crushing motorists inside cars turned to twisted junk, killing many more by spreading intense heat, smoke and noxious fumes throughout the enclosed space of the tubes. Thousands dead, thousands more injured, the nation's biggest city in a wild panic...
...want their five- year-olds on a couch two decades from now telling a psychiatrist, "It was those R-rated thrillers my daddy green-lighted that warped my life." It may be that a few moguls are hitting their midlife-crisis stride. They're tired of making vicious junk that passes for adventure. They'll feel better if they make innocuous junk that passes for humanism...
...such brazen baring of feelings is unhip, Isaak doesn't care. "Sophistication is the subtle art of trading away all your gems for a bunch of junk," he says. During the '70s, while his peers were turning on and dropping out, Isaak -- who neither smokes nor drinks -- was in Japan as a college exchange student grooving to Presley's Sun sessions and trying to break into the movie business. His first credit: a walk-on part in a Japanese World War II film in which he played a lubricious American...
Helen (Sun) and Elsa (Poreba) have known each other for fifteen years, since Elsa was a teenager. Helen is an artist who creates animals and fantastical creatures from scraps and junk in her front yard, which have earned her the distrust and animosity of her neighbors, in addition to the love and respect of a few good friends like Elsa and the toleration of her minister, Marius Byleveld (Artie Wu). Now a schoolteacher in Capetown, Elsa has driven for ten hours in response to a desperate letter from Helen, who is trying to stop the church council from putting...