Word: merrillã
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...paperback. But the message is always fierce, like the character who tells a woman at a cocktail party of the three possessions he would bring on a desert island—“Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ James Merrill??s Collected Poems, and my lucky Sonic Youth T-shirt”—then actually ends up stranded with those items. Starving and naked, he laments, “Every few hours I flip through the Merrill anthology in the hope that one of his poems...
...that the words themselves are all that inspiring or coherent to begin with. Many, like an excerpt from Merrill??s The Changing Light at Sandover and an essay on Judith Butler, are too lengthy and obscure to hold one’s attention for long, despite Evans’ claims that they were “reservoirs of possible meanings that…unravel many discursive journeys.” Far more amusing are the pop up boxes displayed on all the monitors warning that Windows had insufficient virtual memory...
...Merrill??s Henry Blodget, whose excesses have been uncovered by the Spitzer investigation, is emblematic of the current problems on Wall Street. Blodget, a man whose career mirrored the Internet bubble, was an Internet stock analyst at the second-tier firm CIBC Oppenheimer when he made a now famous prediction. Blodget correctly forecast in 1998 that the stock of Amazon.com, then trading at around $225, would hit $400 within 12 months. When the stock hit that target within months, a star was born and Blodget soon jumped to the more prestigious Merrill Lynch. By the time the Internet...
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