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...parents know, a birthday party for a five-year-old is usually marked by wild noise, frantic rushing about and manic exuberance. Even so, there have been few such events as boisterous as the one on Wall Street last week. Growing at a pace that once would have seemed impossible, the bull market that was born five years ago last Thursday showed off its muscles by rampaging past one historic high in stock prices after another...
BUSINESS: The bull market stampedes through a manic birthday celebration...
...page report reveals that mentally ill people who drink or use illegal drugs commit suicide at least twice as often as abstinent schizophrenics or manic depressives. Although these doubly cursed patients frequently show up in psychiatric hospitals and emergency rooms, they are unlikely to get much help. "These are the troublemakers," says Talbott, "the ones that everyone has given up on." Thanks in part to the easy availability of street drugs and alcohol, this hard-core subgroup is rapidly growing. "Twenty-five years ago you didn't have this problem, especially among the young," he notes...
...volatility of the market is inspiring a mixture of excitement and fear, since the Dow's stratospheric level gives it a tendency to sweep up and down from time to time by 50 points or more a day. When individuals reap an overnight windfall, they can become manic and even a little careless about where to put the money next. "Clients are calling about speculative stocks that they've heard about at cocktail parties over the weekend. I'm worried about this," says Jerry Tisserand, a broker for Thomson McKinnon Securities at a branch in Evansville, Ind. At the same...
...folk artist, won an Olivier Award, the West End's equivalent of a Tony, for her performance. At Charleston, she once again convincingly blended the workaday and the visionary, making an audience see glory even in Douglas Heap's set -- in truth, reminiscent of a tatty disco. Her manic scurrying in denial of advancing age was a shrewd counterpoint to the prematurely world-weary languidness of Charlotte Cornwell, repeating her role as the friend, a disillusioned teacher of mixed-race youths. The Charleston version, which Fugard terms definitive, achieved the resonance between the mundane and the metaphysical that characterizes...