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...26th floor of the gilded Trump Tower in Manhattan, the brash developer and his lieutenants barricaded themselves behind closed doors last week to meet with a phalanx of worried lenders. Officials from four major banks, who have extended an estimated $2 billion to the developer, are negotiating with Trump to reduce his debt load by stripping down his empire. Investors who hold more than $1 billion in junk bonds that Trump issued to finance his three casinos have seen the market value of their securities plunge by as much as 50%. Bondholders of two Atlantic City properties, the Trump Castle...
...sure comedy, Blue Velvet for laughs. The plot, from Barry Gifford's noirish novel, is your standard slice of poisoned American pie: a pair of loser-friendly lovers, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern), hit the road to escape Lula's mom and a phalanx of psychos who vividly illustrate Lula's contention that the "whole world's wild at heart and weird on top." But the picture is charged with so much deranged energy, so many bravura images, that it's hard not to be seduced by the sick wonder of it all. One character...
...coated phalanx of pathetic pre-meds," retorted Spin...
...frigid darkness between midnight and dawn, two troop carriers pulled up in front of a psychiatric hospital outside Vilnius and a phalanx of Soviet paratroopers in battle dress leaped out. The soldiers dashed up the stairs to the third floor, smashed doors and windows and dragged out about two dozen Lithuanian deserters who had been hiding in the ward. Some of the youths ; resisted, and were clubbed with rifle butts, leaving splashes of blood on the steps. The commander in chief of Soviet ground forces, General Valentin Varennikov, vowed that the army would round...
...concentrating in Social Studies, I and the supportive group of friends with whom I have shared the experience have become a "pin-striped phalanx" joining in the "production of attorneys to defend the Constitutional rights of large corporations and major real estate speculators...