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...stock traits of noir or pulp any more than they would ordinarily mock and inflate themselves. If anything, the one implicit joke is on the author; there is only the awkwardness of a character self-consciously using a cell phone over a pay phone, or complaining about the steep minority of smokers in American society. Readers don’t laugh at Johnson’s noir-by-the-numbers. They laugh at the absurdity of a noir parody being published in 2009. And even laughing is a stretch.Could Johnson possibly be serious? Was the “Playboy?...
Another popular argument against bondholders is that they made bad investment choices, so their steep losses are well deserved. But union leaders in Detroit negotiated the richest benefits packages of any industry - GM's health-care outlays grew so big that one Wall Street analyst dubbed the company "an HMO on wheels" - and that played some role in the declining competitiveness of GM and Chrysler. Don't the autoworkers and their union leaders bear some responsibility for that...
...Street Journal has reported that Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) have done poorly on their "stress tests". Each bank may be encouraged to raise more capital. As a number of analysts have pointed out, private equity has no interest in stakes in troubled banks even at a steep discount to their current market values. To help improve banks' capital bases, the Administration will almost certainly have to take the money it has given and is about to give to banks, and convert it into common stock. That will crush current shareholders and it will create the problem...
...built on good faith. Anyone who owns one of the nine versions of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, each with its own seductive "extra" features, knows it's a lot more like the relationship between Charlie Brown and Lucy. But after years of selling slightly improved old goods at steep new prices, at least a few labels have started focusing on quality control. "In this day and age and economy, we have to make something remarkable, or we're not going to be able to compete," says Adam Block, general manager of Legacy Recordings, Sony's catalog and archive...
...Modeled for Teen Vogue, check out Eleganza (Harvard Basketball Center, 8 p.m., $12). It’s a steep price, but it might be worth it to check out what’s behind all the hype. If it’s anything like last year’s, the show will be a little odd, but then again, we at FlyBy don’t really know anything about fashion anyway...