Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Karl's spirit guides had been advising her to go to the Incan empire's sacred Lake Titicaca in Bolivia (the Andes seem to be a favorite way station for UFOs). "They sort of told us we would meet them," she says. "I won't believe it until I see them and talk to them and feel the panel on the spaceship. But maybe it is time for people to know they have help." And so, starry-eyed and full of hope, Karl headed southward, and she did catch a distant glimpse of what she took to be a spaceship...
...standard equipment on cars of the future. Ron Glantz, an auto analyst at Montgomery Securities, feels otherwise. "Other than parking," he says, "the only benefit is on gravel roads at speeds over 70 m.p.h." In Japan, where the technology was first marketed more than two years ago, car buyers seem favorably impressed. Nissan reports that 40% of the Japanese who pick the flashy Skyline model ask for four-wheel steering. Some 75% of those buying new Honda Prelude in Japan have purchased the high-tech option...
...appears to be headed back to Broadway. Combined with the 3 million-copy sales of Barbra Streisand's 1985Broadway Album, featuring Sondheim songs, and the annuity represented by his copyrights, notably West Side Story and Forum, the new hits yield fortune as well as fame. Money does not seem to mean much to Sondheim -- "I turn it over to my accountants and do what they tell me to" -- and, for a man who acknowledges he sometimes makes more than $1 million a year, he does not seem to believe he has much. After writing Sunday in the Park about Painter...
Preaching humility in amateur psychological analysis may seem hopelessly naive, especially now, after the character issue has already destroyed two candidates and a campaign manager. But in the heat of the presidential campaign, it remains imperative to remember the famous Freudian crack that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Stepping back from the quest for great psychological truths does not mean abandoning the praiseworthy attempt to predict presidential performance. But there are methods other than pop psychology for judging would-be leaders; they may not be as flashy, but they are more easily measured and assessed. Each candidate brings...
BUSINESS: This holiday season all the new toys seem to talk -- or shoot -- back...