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Whatever social obstacles the Cornell-educated Weill faced when he hit Wall Street in 1955, he had built a respectable brokerage in Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt by 1969. He then swallowed Shearson, Hayden Stone and other houses before selling the whole shebang in 1981 to American Express. By 1985, when Weill lost a power struggle with white-bread Amex CEO James D. Robinson III and was ousted as president, it wasn't because Weill was Jewish. He was just outmaneuvered. And he left as a multimillionaire. It's difficult for Langley to set a good sob story at Weill...
...Sparkly Queen Areola;” the songs are, according to the liner notes, “mainly ramblings on our cereal box of life, the sparkly sparkly pussy.” Only instead of Blink’s surf-punk bar-chord pop, the whole shebang is framed by some beautifully recorded but distinctly do-it-yourself acousticness, with frequent accompanying howls and yelps...
...meanwhile, unconstitutional on free-speech grounds.) But while the fattest target would be Paul Wellstone's limits on issue-advocacy groups, the McConnells of the world - who still say the problem isn't too much money in politics, it's too little - will still be gunning for the whole shebang...
...which won awards at last year's Cannes - with bonking that bests French director Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue for realistic moan-groan quotient and full-body bump and grind. Today, it seems, Korean directors can do just about anything. 1999's Yellow Hair was a sex shebang with orgies and lesbianism that left the viewer with third-degree eyeball burns. That year's Lies by Sun Woo-Jang was a sado-masochistic romance between a married sculptor and a high-school girl half his age, a class-act film that fashioned poetry from pornography and high-fived...
...Bush could win the whole shebang...