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...says, "it's not anything near a selfless experience. It's very self-fulfilling and revitalizing. I'm up there trying to fire myself up. When the metal hits the pedal--bang!--I got a destination that I am moving toward, and I'm not gonna be satisfied till I get there. For me." Of course, Springsteen's pleasure is famously infectious. Springsteen feeds off the crowd, which feeds off him in an endless cycle of stadium euphoria...
...ever made." The Village Voice put its sassiest junior movie critic (me) on the Meyer beat, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm. I'd followed Meyer since around 1960, when I saw "Teas" at an "art" theater in Philadelphia, but I didn't strap him on till the color comedies. Later I was vagrantly known as the guy who had named "Beyond the Valley" one of the ten best films of the '60s. (I don't have the clipping, but it's entirely plausible - I quite liked the movie...
...cool-headed investors out there who have seen these bumps before and are confident the market will come back eventually. But that has a way of taking years, even without a crisis of ethical confidence. Stocks didn't return to their 1929 levels until 1940; they took 30 years, till 1996, to return to the peak reached in 1966. Many stocks still aren't cheap, third quarters are often painful, and the bears, at least, think there's more bad news to come...
...Perejil (parsley) came to a head with Spain recalling its ambassador and sending troops to seize the island 200 m off Morocco's coast. Later Spain offered to remove its troops if Morocco guaranteed it would not reoccupy the island. Perejil, known to Morocco as Leila, was unheard of till Moroccan troops landed on the uninhabited rock. Spain's concern for Perejil comes from its position near Spain's North African enclave Ceuta. GREECE 17 November Cracked Greek authorities detained a 58-year-old math professor suspected of being the leader, and a founder member, of the terrorist group Revolutionary...
...said, ‘I don’t want to wait till I’m 50 years old to do something,’” Fu said. “He had been so frustrated and so depressed, having no control over what he could do [because he was banned from the country...