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Last week, just before the bull market's first birthday, Citibank threatened to spoil the party. It raised its prime rate from 10½% to 11%. Other banks followed, and stock prices sank as they almost always do when higher interest rates loom. By week's end they had begun a modest rebound, but investors remained nervous. Even so, nothing could change the fact that it had been quite a ride-and, despite the inevitable "corrections," it might have a lot more mileage...
...planned to play on strengths of our forwards to win possession for our backs and to spoil their possession and give them bad ball. In both spheres we failed," said Harvard Coach Martyn Kingston...
...more than $1,100 an hour, for instance, just for the services of Star Model Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody has found a French cowherd. Actually he is a Puerto Rican waiter, but in beret, smock and scarf, and with rouge on his round cheeks to suggest a history of drinking wine for breakfast, he looks as French as Pierre...
...such amiably meant awkwardness, however, could spoil the monthlong royal road show that began last week in Jamaica and proceeded to the Cayman Islands, to Mexico, and on toward the wilds of California (see following story). Queen Elizabeth II is nearly unflappable as star and stage manager of the Windsor family troupe, and her husband Prince Philip, though he sometimes indulges in grumpy asides, has a useful comic gift and a scene-saving knack for improvisation. (Jamaicans last week admiringly recalled an occasion during the royal couple's 1975 visit when one profoundly confused male official approached the Queen...
...subject perfectly. By the time Rupert kidnaps Jerry, demanding air time for his monologue, and making everyone believe that death is his downside, the movie is irresistible, though a crude coda, which makes explicit the social criticism long since implied, is eminently resistible. But if it blunts it cannot spoil a film that will itch on the memory...