Word: lighteners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This is not a call to sell all tech stocks. Lighten up, maybe. There are plenty of other things to own, including bonds. Before tech lifts off again, some surprise sector will have soared. Who thought utilities would rise 40% this year? Reasonable candidates to charge ahead next are energy (if oil stays over $25 per bbl.) and regional banks (if severe credit problems don't surface and the Fed cuts rates). Get rid of margin debt, definitely. And lower your expectations for future returns. But stay invested. Everyone in my small survey expected the Dow to be hitting...
...front ranks of the up-and-coming ingenues, she still must keep an eye on Cameron Diaz, Ashley Judd and Gwyneth Paltrow. "You have to be willing to go to the director and go, 'Look!'" says Theron. "You sometimes have to convince them." While she doesn't plan to lighten her work load, she is becoming more reticent with the press. Asked if she's engaged to her longtime boyfriend, singer Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, she responds, "This is the part where I would shoot my mouth off. He's great. There...
...classic takes place in a Russian flophouse at the turn of the century. Gorky's denizens all preserve their unmistakable personalities amidst the squalor of their hopeless everyday routine. Max Montel's gentle directing approach should be well-suited for a "Russian-human-condition" show; the ensemble cast will lighten your hearts as they depress...
...dance, it's a dance with a broomstick, men being the broomstick. They stand there, staring at a woman's chest, while the woman whirls around in circles, making requests and ticking off conditions. Come closer. No, give me space. Commit. Back off. Toughen up. Soften up. Lighten up. Get serious. It's enough to drive a guy to drink, but unfortunately contemporary women no longer find hard-drinking men attractive. This too will change, though...
...exactly have a normal childhood, neither did W. The death of his three-year-old sister Robin in 1953, when he was seven, has been seen as one source of his breezy manner; when sorrow settled over the house, the little boy saw it as his job to lighten things up, especially to cheer up his mother, whose hair began to turn white in her 28th year. W. always denies planning his life, plotting to run for President since he was a kid. "I live in the moment," he says, and people who knew him as a child think that...