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...fully understands. A hard rain now falls on the just as well as the unjust. Consumers have stopped spending, factories have stopped operating, employers have stopped hiring - and home values continue to fall. For millions of people, the margin between getting by and getting buried is becoming as thin and as bloody as a razor blade...
...playing in Tokyo in 1986 for audiences as prestigious as a Japanese princess. “Your job is to get an audience. Not like on a stage when you pretty much know people are coming to the venue. You have to create the venue pretty much out of thin air,” Nieman says. “There were times it wasn’t working. At times it can be brutal being out there performing....Some people [think] ‘Why is this guy doing this?’ Some people look at street performers...
President Obama himself, who ran as a self-nominated candidate in 1991 on a platform of divestment from South Africa, failed in his bid, boasting a thin resume pinned on his experience as a former “community development director” and Harvard Law Review president. Among the triumphant that year was then-senior vice president of Microsoft Steven A. Ballmer ’77, a former Crimson business editor...
From a distance, it looks like an ordinary movie poster. Pasted to a bus shelter wall along Madrid's central Calle Segovia, it depicts a thin child looking upward toward credits printed in that look-at-me font that film-publicity posters seemingly always use. It's only when you get close enough to read the title credits that you realize something is amiss. "Ask Al Gore," one passerby queried his companion. "That's the name of a movie...
...want to tell her who to trust and who not to trust; who her real good friends are and who’s going to fuck her over; who to sleep with and who definitely not to…But I look at her sitting there, thin and insolent and complete, and I can’t say any of it.”The past and the way it returns to us is a recurring theme throughout the book, suturing the stories to one another and focusing the reader’s attention on the characters’ simultaneous...