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...models, on the other hand, were exemplary - pristine, perfect little gunwales, torpedoes and conning towers. The parts trees came shrink-wrapped and were rendered with such precision you could see the bolts on a battleship's antiaircraft cannon. And as a 13-year-old desperately trying to stall the onset of puberty, I needed to see those bolts...
...while bonds were around 5%. An inverted yield curve is one of the most reliable predictors of tough economic times ahead. Eight of the past nine recessions were preceded by such an event. The last time the yield curve inverted was a decade ago, just before the onset of the 1990 recession...
Maybe it was spurred by the onset of spring. Maybe it was sparked by visions of angry environmentalists storming the Oval Office. We may never know what precipitated the apparent change of heart, but the Bush White House is suddenly seeing green...
...Manila's slums and into the queasy, crowded rooms where the performers copulate on lumpy mattresses. There are flashes of flesh, but the camera focuses on the audience's eerie, dead stare. When one of the women, Gigi, starts grunting loudly during sex, her partner wonders if its the onset of an asthma attack. It turns out she was trying to catch the eye of a Korean pornographer in the crowd. For most of the characters, anything that can go wrong, does. Money for Gigi's plane ticket to Japan is stolen; another girl, Rose, tries to poison herself after...
...Stadium or Wrigley Field - memories of those storied parks always seem to wear a patina of easy grace. Evincing rose-colored memories of childhood Sundays in the hulking concrete-and-Astroturf confines of Three Rivers Stadium, on the other hand, requires either a certain predisposition to sentimentality or early-onset memory loss...