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Connally never incorporated his main business, and is now vulnerable to creditors' claims on his personal assets. A high roller, Connally has begun to retrench. While he still maintains his Floresville ranch and his $960,000 home in Austin (with his and hers Jacuzzis), he sold his house in Santa Fe and put a FOR SALE sign on a penthouse condominium on South Padre Island in the Gulf of Mexico. His treasured racehorses were the latest to go. A man who never seemed to doubt himself, Connally still believes he can ride out his troubles. But this time...
...year in which the stock market has taken one heart-stopping roller-coaster ride after another, the last thing that investors needed was a new element of uncertainty. But many of them are worried that the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which President Reagan signed two weeks ago, will bring on fresh dips and hairpin turns. By lowering tax rates but eliminating many deductions and preferences, the legislation has already changed the investment climate and forced people to take a hard look at their stock portfolios...
...completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...
Nonetheless, more than 100,000 people a day, as many as 40% of them from the U.S., travel to the Edmonton complex, and with good reason. The Ghermezian mall contains a mammoth amusement park, with entry free of charge. Fully integrated into the retail complex, it comes complete with roller coasters and carrousels (47 rides in all). The mall also boasts an 18-hole miniature golf course and a $5 million hockey rink where Superstar Wayne Gretzky practices with the Edmonton Oilers. The center's Waterpark sports a 600-ft. water slide and a 2.5-acre artificial lake featuring...
...made the cover of Time and a spot on "Entertainment Tonight," all in connection with his latest picture, Aliens, which proudly denies its existential status as a motion picture and insists on being an amusement park attraction--"America's number one roller coaster ride!" As Julie Brown said, definitely an "E" ticket...