Word: stabs
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...trader and two money managers, and lately, points lost on the NASDAQ have been discussed more hotly than those lost on the court through blurred vision and spot rule revisions. To sharpen our focus and have a bit of fun, at our last outing we each made a stab at how long it will take the NASDAQ to get back to its March 10 record close of 5,049. The surprising results spurred me to widen the sample last week with calls to 10 other Wall Street types. Their range of answers ran along the same lines as that...
...other actors, however, took more liberties, occasionally getting up to stab another character or fall over in their seats to imitate death...
There's the temptation to search for the meaning of America in its popular culture (God help us) - in its movies, for example. I mentioned "American Beauty," and wondered aloud whether that meretricious piece of work said anything useful about America, or whether it simply represented a stab at profundity by slightly stupid moviemakers living overprivileged lives in places like Santa Monica and Brentwood. Some of the students, who liked the movie, reacted irritably. I admitted mine was the minority judgment...
...despised by the whole country as head of their party?" Inside Yugoslavia and out, nearly everyone is worried that democracy will be imperiled as long as Milosevic remains. "I don't trust a single word of Milosevic," said opposition spokesman Djindjic, warning that he would seek "to stab the nation in the back...
...reason for the Corrs' large-scale success to date (as well as in the foreseeable future) is that the three sisters are, to put it simply, gorgeous. Movie-star gorgeous. Stab-your-friend-in-the-back-for-their-smile gorgeous. And, yes, buy-their-assembly-line-trash-music gorgeous. Fight the impulse; if you must gaze at the Corrs, buy a poster, not their album. It's easier to stare at them when that bad pop music isn't distracting you anyhow...