Word: teaser
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...homeowners will have to pay to keep their mortgages current. According to an analysis by First American CoreLogic, a firm that tracks real estate and home loans, a typical subprime first mortgage that was originated in 2004 to 2006 will face a monthly increase of $407, and a typical teaser-rate loan, the type often sold to people based on their ability to pay the introductory rate and not the reset, will see monthly payments jump...
Michael Crichton has made an excellent literary career scaring us about what will happen when our brains outpace our souls. In best sellers from the Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park to his latest book out today, Next ("Welcome to our genetic world," says the teaser. "Fast, furious and out of control"), Crichton has for years been stoking the private ethics conversation that we are so clumsy at conducting in public...
...singers but on the operagoers. Everyone gets to be a prima donna, or a spear carrier, in Altman's daring democracy. Not many directors would think to open a film with an elegant eight-minute tracking shot that brings dozens of characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment had calcified into the format of "the Altman movie." But what the hell...
...issues, one full year of 02138. To compare, magazines like Vanity Fair charge half as much for twice as many issues. For the hoi polloi without a Harvard degree, content is available in an online issue. But a Harvard degree might be necessary to stand the self-awareness: the teaser for one story reads, “Think the vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border are a bunch of uneducated xenophobes? Not the one with the Ph.D. from Harvard.” Ahem. So for anyone who wants to be an occasional reader of 02138 in hard copy...
...listing is back up, and the Pynchon-penned teaser is downright tantalizing: "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead...