Word: pandemoniums
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...life," she says, "where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad." It is that same kind of detached self-possession that enables her, in the midst of pandemonium, to remain as composed as a sermon. "A single word of anger from her or any suggestion of violence ((at Ninoy's funeral)) could conceivably have overtaken Malacanang Palace," relates Emmanuel Pelaez, the Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. "But she was very scriptural. 'Vengeance is mine,' she must have said...
...much more than mere pandemonium is taking place. Behind the unusual eruption of financial sound and fury, an electronic upheaval is sweeping Wall Street, drastically reshaping the way stocks are traded and business is performed in the U.S. and around the world. At the center is a wave of computerization that has radically changed the speed of stock trading and injected unprecedented floods of money into the marketplace. For those with the cash or credit, the equipment and the expertise to play in the new market, the times seem utopian. One Manhattan-based private investor who is viewed with...
...pandemonium is due to what the British are calling Big Bang, a code name for what amounts to a revolution that is sweeping local financial and capital markets. Formally, Big Bang refers to the deregulation of Britain's domestic securities markets, when the 218-member London Stock Exchange will abandon a system of fixed commissions for brokers. The Exchange will also drop a traditional separation between the brokers, who execute stock and bond trades for their clients, and the so-called jobbers, who handle the brokers' orders as well as manage their own hefty accounts. This upheaval, roughly akin...
...Fever, by contrast, there are depths beneath the glittering surface. Harris and a gifted supporting cast manage to suggest most of them despite Director Brian Murray's heavy-handed style, which emphasizes pandemonium rather than character study. The slender plot depicts the artsy Bliss family at play in their country home. Their main amusement is the calculated tormenting of four hapless weekend visitors, each of whom winds up enmeshed by some member of the family in a less than blissful, indeed heartlessly feigned, romance...
...able to immobilize telephone lines three times--once in New Jersey (of course), once in Pennsylvania, and once in Washington, D.C. Whenever and wherever a Springsteen concert was announced, pandemonium erupted. When the D.C. date became public, even the White House had trouble communicating whatever it had to communicate all day long. Bruce was even banned from playing in Fox-borough, Mass., an honor previously accorded to Michael Jackson. That means he's really...