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...Mason Sexton, president of Wall Street's Harmonic Research: "You don't stand in the way of this bull if you value your life." He thinks the Dow will probably pierce 1600 before declining grudgingly. David Bostian, president of Manhattan's Bostian Research Associates, is optimistic about the longterm outlook for stocks but warns that the bulls may stumble in the next few months. Says he: "We're way overdue for a steep correction. An investor should not be doing aggressive new buying...
...seven, the image was one of precocious vitality. Whatever their infant outlook on life, whether smashing class clichés or already living comfortably within them--like the upper-class twit who says, "I like my newspaper because I've got shares in it"--these children seemed raring to help shape the empire's future. To watch the original documentary (which accompanied 28 Up in its New York City premiere) is to be charmed into suspending awareness of the depressing trajectory of British life since then. The succeeding films follow that arc; they might be called 14 Perpendicular, 21 Tilt...
...have been his acute awareness of illumination and shadow that gave Adams his elegiac outlook. At one point he recalls a moment when he and his companions came upon the scene that would become his most famous image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941). With the last rays of sunset striking the tiny settlement, Adams scrambled to set up his camera, shouting "Get that, for God's sake! We don't have much time!" Not much, but enough for an artist of sublime sensibility to catch light on the run and keep it forever. --By Richard Lacayo
...outlook could be a mantra for today's postideological China. What is in some ways most striking about the country, as new middle-class consumers flock to shopping malls, is how normal it feels. Although billboards celebrating the glory of the Communist Party can still be found in Beijing, they tend to elicit derision instead of deference--and even Chairman Mao's visage has morphed into a Pop-art commodity in the capital's avant-garde galleries...
...many in the group, it's a reawakening. Joe Benoit, 82, who has lymphoma, used to tell his children when they were growing up to "turn down that music." But "now I like it," he says. "Your outlook changes when you get older. You think, 'How much longer do I have to live? Why don't I just enjoy myself...