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People of all ages are getting the moviegoing habit this summer. Over Memorial Day weekend, Sylvester Stallone went sky-high with Cliffhanger, but that was just a sneak preview of the sweltering summer box office. In June, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, which will soon become the second highest- grossing film in history (after Spielberg's E.T.), got everybody into the theaters. Viewers liked what they saw and kept coming back. Sleepless in Seattle enticed the cooing couples. The Firm, In the Line of Fire and Rising Sun proved there was a huge July audience for old-fashioned suspense films...
...warning signs are everywhere. Share prices in the relentlessly upbeat stock market now stand at sky-high levels by historical standards, and dividend yields have fallen to near record lows -- classic signals that the bull market that began 2 1/2 years ago has got dangerously long in the tooth. At the same time, companies continue to flood Wall Street with new issues to cash in on the bull's run before it can stumble -- another omen that the market may be overheated and headed for a fall. Even the current rush of little-guy buyers is usually a harbinger...
...admissions office boasts every spring that each first-year class is more talented and more competitive than its predecessors. The Class of 1997 is no exception, sporting sky-high grades and test scores...
...Sky-High Rents...
...pleasure of Armand Assante's extraordinary performance as Cesar Castillo. He is Don Juan with a motor, blessed with a sense of humor and self-irony, as well as with compulsive cavalierness, Assante never fails to be riveting. He takes over the movie and sends it sky-high...