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...Look at the teen flicks of the '80s. In their vision of high school, "crowd" is everything. In 1983's "Valley Girl," Nicolas Cage plays a semi-mohawked Hollywood surf-punk with a crush on the suburban aristocrat of the title. When he sings along to a new wave tune on the radio, her cheerleaderish friend reacts as is he's reciting from "Mein Kampf." When he and his buddy decide to sneak into a party at her house where jocks in polo shirts cavort to bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things...
...have prime seats. We are also sitting in the section where a semi-famous vendor named Perry sells beer. Perry sells beer fast and opens it even faster; he’s got an electric bottle opener (based on an electric screwdriver) that whirrs enticingly, and he makes it a spectator sport. People pull out their wallets just to get a close-up of the damn thing. He should sell that thing at colleges—he’d be set for life...
...First there was AOL, the rich friend of Father?s (the two already share in the Time Warner Entertainment partnership) swooping in on the heels of the Comcast offer to discuss a glorious scenario in which AOL and AT&T form anything from a semi-monogamous dating arrangement to a full-blown marriage...
...other words, if Alan Greenspan was ever planning to unspool some additional optimism on the state of the economy in his return to the Hill after last week's semi-sanguine appearance before the House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday, he'd have known by Tuesday's opening bell that he'd have been shouting into a pretty stiff wind...
Back when Alan Greenspan was Lord of the Boom, parsing his semi-annual testimony on matters economic in front of the House and Senate was usually a pointless exercise. The financial world was like a stockbroker on a cocaine jag - euphoric and volatile and throwing cash around like, well, a stockbroker on a cocaine jag. Greenspan saved his lever-pulling for Fed meetings and put the lawmakers to sleep with boilerplate. The only real payoff to watching was to see how barely Lord Alan disguised his bemusement at the questions posed after his prepared remarks...