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...less good news may be more important: the picture is murkier than images on most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality, lower-cost versions into the price range of mortals sometime near century...
Berry said that the enthusiasm Pepsi has shown is a good omen...
...mocking his professors for several years, sneering as his negligee-clad girlfriend reads him a letter from home. "Your father is dead," she reports. "To hell with him," says he. Just then his mother's portrait falls off the wall to the floor. His shallow rebellion vanishes at this omen. He sinks to his knees, repents and returns home to preach hellfire to amazed and grateful peasants. If Dreams is regarded not as a novel but as a marvelous trunkful of loosely related funny bits like this one, it is a great success...
Clinton will have to continue measuring each move he makes. To overpoliticize the tragedy would cost him dearly in the eyes of an already skeptical public. With that in mind, Clinton might decide that one bit of information he received last week was a positive omen. As rescuers dug through the remains of the Murrah building, they found a wall that had originally stood in the lobby but had collapsed into the basement. Still hanging from the wall were two framed photographs, one of Vice President Al Gore, the other of Bill Clinton...
Just call it a bad omen...