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...half-escapist "chipped beef" a young, impoverished David imagines a wealth that can satisfy his lust for snobbery: "We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopelessly phonetic spelling." Later, in "the incomplete quad," he recalls with nostalgia his shattered dreams of Harvard: "I wasn't sure what a quad was, but I knew that I wanted one desperately. My college friends would own horses and monogrammed shoehorns...
...conducted in a reverent whisper; only the brakes screech, just after a climax or before a death. Even the carnographic love play--in which each character has predictably weird sex with most of the others--is too studied. The fine actors disport themselves solemnly, like giant hood ornaments of lust...
...very long term, fundamental changes in the economy may have rendered our traditional views of market behavior meaningless. Just look at the size of the herd: baby boomers, all 80 million of them, have a lust for stock that keeps growing. "A substantial number of us are reaching 45 and realizing that we need to save more," says Rodney Trautvetter, CEO of Burke, Christensen, Lewis Securities, a Chicago discount brokerage. "And the historic averages in the stock market still blow out savings accounts...
...alluring Little Bo Peep-esque automaton named Olympia (Jennifer Little), the "daughter" of the wacky Dr. Spalanzani (Joel Pollack). Hoffmann tries to romance her, but as he dances with this red-cheeked robot sexpot, she spins out of control, and the protagonist becomes painfully aware of how unnatural his lust is. Little sang some breathtaking runs, imbuing her vocal acrobatics with a fine coloratura and marvelous control...
...additional $27 billion last month. The six-year bull market, which has seen the Dow rise from around 2,400 in 1990, shows little sign of letting up. All that good news has investors confident of still higher markets, which is exactly what worries some analysts. "Unbridled greed and lust," said Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "There is a conviction that we are in a perfect world, irrespective of any growth rate, where we will never again have any problem with inflation, Fed policy and interest rates...