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...Recovery for Real? With the world focusing on droopy consumer confidence and sluggish economic growth, it's easy to overlook the fact that global stock markets have quietly risen over 20% since March 11. What does that mean? Bank of America strategist Lorenzo Codogno believes that while most of us look backward at last quarter's growth, the market is telling us what lies around the bend. "The stock market essentially anticipates the economic situation by three or four quarters," he says. "Right now it is pricing in a recovery for next year." Commerzbank strategist Rolf Elgeti disagrees. He says...
...holding WorldCom. That's how some advertisers felt last year when they bought traditional dramas and sitcoms and, come winter, saw them replaced by the likes of Are You Hot? Despite hits like Joe Millionaire, reality shows' ratings are unpredictable, and not everyone wants their snack chips associated with Lorenzo Lamas' laser pointer...
...familiar with the different techniques. But it was marvelous to see them come to life." Designed by Josef Kornh?usel in the 1820s according to an elaborate French classicist style unique to Central Europe, the rooms feature jewel-colored silk wall coverings specially made by the prestigious Venetian textile manufacturer Lorenzo Rubelli from original patterns found in the state archives in Budapest; intarsia floors by Joseph Danhauser incorporating eight different kinds of wood; charming Angelika Kaufmann medallions released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied from the originals where necessary by the Austrian crystal specialist Swarovski...
Nearly opposite to this search for beauty is the adaptation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (64pp.; $15.95) by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky, with art by Mattotti. Of the three adaptations covered here, this one takes the most liberties with the original material. Organized more like a mystery, R. L. Stevenson's original 1886 novella kept Dr. Jekyll's secret until two-thirds through the book. No longer a mystery to anyone, Mattotti and Kramsky wisely focus instead on Jekyll's motivations in releasing the nefarious Hyde. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend...
...predecessors were made of sterner stuff. Nor, despite his nickname, was Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-92) the biggest patron of the clan. That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Allesandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor--which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated...