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...subtlety and, often as not, finds what he's looking for. Magic-lantern images are everywhere: in the blood pouring from an altar crucifix; in the Castle Dracula chauffeur garbed as Darth Vader; in the endless supertrain of the count's cape; in the placental gel and rat's-nest cocoons that encase the vampire. But more: in the wonderfully spectral mood that does justice to the romance at Dracula's heart...
...personal experience with heart disease inspired her soon-to-be published book, Strong Women, Weak Hearts. "If we are premenopausal," she writes, "we are not expected to have coronary artery disease, and our diagnosis and treatment is neglected. If we are post-menopausal, we are suffering from the 'empty nest syndrome' and need an affliction to fill our emptiness. In either case, our illnesses are supposed to be mostly psychosomatic: of the mind, rather than physical...
...Soviet capital the next day. The approach was less peculiar than it may sound. The Soviet Union was disintegrating; its last leader, then 11 days from resigning, was already in limbo. Gorbachev and his loyalists believed that the U.S. embassy had long since become a nest of Yeltsinites and would not be a reliable channel to Baker...
...running for the Senate at the "dangerous age" of 51 -- or any number of our year-of-the-woman stars? Are they in denial too? Women already spend much of their lives in service to biology -- bearing and raising children; so how sad to arrive, finally, at the empty nest, only to find that it's bubbling over with its own toxic hormonal brew...
WHEN LAWSON BROWN SET OUT to reinvest his family's $70,000 nest egg a few months ago, the Minneapolis, Minnesota, probation officer found his options limited. Brown, 39, considered mutual funds to be "unexciting." Certificates of deposit? "Get real," he says. "Not with bank rates of 3%." Bonds? "Same problem." The only alternative, he says, was the stock market. He took the plunge, scoring short-term gains in high-tech stocks and banking issues, which lulled him into a sense of security. Now he and other investors are getting a loud wake-up call from the market's bumpy...