Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping eye sockets of the skull he clutches. The eyeline is set low, so that the saint towers over...
...doesn't get better but the myth becomes more and more insane, then the correction is going to be more and more violent." While no direct tie exists between stock-market crashes and depressions, a shattering of Wall Street's confidence would deliver a sharp psychological blow to the rest of the population. Adds Rohatyn: "People will only wake up when one morning they see the stock market unwinding by 150 points in the first two hours. Then people will say, 'Hey, what's happening out there...
...some undetermined point, the public will start to feel more than a little edgy. Says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management: "For the U.S., it happens when our debts seem to be unreasonable to the rest of the world relative to our wealth, when we start looking like Brazil." At that point, some unexpected event could trigger a panic. Says Rohatyn: "The cause is utterly unpredictable. Some trading company in Hong Kong will go belly-up, or perhaps a bank in Luxembourg...
...Amazon Women, an anthology of satirical sketches about our age of Television and the Short Attention Span. In an early sketch, Lou Jacobi plays a man who accidentally aims his remote control at himself and winds up on whatever program happens to be on his set. For the rest of the movie, an instant of television static, as if someone were changing channels, appears between each sketch...
...Committee for a Just Supreme Court plans to distribute form letters and fact sheets on Bork in the dining halls for the rest of the week...