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...John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, expects the bulls to keep stomping because of what he calls "America's amazing self-regulating economy." Makin notes that each time business activity has heated up recently, bond buyers, worried about a new burst of inflation, have driven interest rates higher. That has taken pressure off the Federal Reserve to jack up the rates it controls, which could make the stock market tumble. Then, with the economy cooling and fears receding of Fed tightening, investors have started pouring money into stocks again...
Today Braxton, with her frankly sexual (though never explicit) songs, seems to be making up for lost time. The first single released from Secrets, You're Makin Me High, deals with masturbation. Another song bears the blunt title Find Me a Man. Her parents, she says, are proud of her music, and her father, in church, prays for her albums to climb the charts. Three of her sisters, Towanda, Trina and Tamar, have their own vocal group, the Braxtons (Toni was once a member but went solo). Braxton, however, isn't completely fulfilled. Although she is "dating," she says...
...Thompson) now comes the inevitable feature film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. This movie, borrowing the plot of the 1951 Alec Guinness comedy The Man in the White Suit; is about a "happy drug" that makes everyone miserable. Bad news for the Kids: the movie (directed by Kevin Makin) will have the same effect. The story is flat and shrill; the characters show little life; the needle on the giggle-ometer barely flinches. The Kids don't have the wit to harness their galloping contempt...
...every stage changeover, the lights are dimmed and the music blares out. This would have provided a perfect transition between the scenes were it not for the sometimes-incongruous mood of the music with the preceding drama--Shakespeare's emotional fireworks are diminished when they are followed by "Makin' Whoopee...
...mother, Sharon M. Khaw, a member of Friends of Burma and an anthropology student at the Extension School, said Adam particularly enjoyed the sanhwey makin, a Burmese cake made with semolina and raisins...