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...drummer started pounding, walls of feedback kicked in, and—are those power chords I hear? By show’s end, Droste and co. had brought out an oboe, a recorder, a flute, a xylophone and an autoharp—enough instruments for a ramshackle, Olivia Tremor Control-style psych orchestra, without the tape noise that covered the album...
...postscandal??era,??corporate boards of directors have been under close scrutiny and logging twice as many hours. Now the once cushy job could bring a crushing level of personal financial liability as well. That's the latest tremor to rock the business world. It springs from a deal in which 10 former directors at WorldCom (now MCI) will dig deep into their pockets to settle lawsuits stemming from the phone company's accounting scandal and plunge into bankruptcy...
...only serious tremor came on Oct. 15, when a trader sold roughly $140,000 of Bush contracts on Intrade for no obvious reason. Bush futures fell from 54¢ (giving him a 54% chance of winning) to 10¢. Within six minutes the price was back to 52¢, as traders snapped up bargains. The tumult led to speculation that someone might have been manipulating the market to plant doubts about Bush. But John Murray, a futures trader in New York City and one of Intrade's 43,000 members, says political biases don't sway serious traders. Neither do national polls. Instead...
That '94 sweep was itself a delayed tremor of the Reagan upheaval. Newt Gingrich's Contract with America drew heavily from Reagan's legacy. But there was another lesson of Reaganism that Gingrich and the Republican class of '94 grasped too late: keep smiling. Even when his views were most intransigentwhen he wondered out loud whether Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist or failed for nearly all of his presidency to speak the word AIDS even onceReagan gave Reaganism a human face. "He made us sunny optimists," says Bush political adviser Karl Rove. "His was a conservatism of laughter...
...says, are limited to a hereditary hand tremor, which gives his drawing style its distinctive wobble. His characters also endure adversity - from the grumbling colostomy bag of Uncle (1996), the first in a trilogy of shorts acquired by broadcaster sbs, to the cerebral palsy of Cousin (1998) and asthmatic fits of Brother (1999). But more often than not, they don't. "When I was older, my auntie drank rat poison and died," says the narrator of Uncle, which sets the tone in the Elliot oeuvre for outlandish deaths. As for the carnage in Krumpet, Harvie's parents are found frozen...