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...financing the worldwide expansion. But, Tyson asked, "how long can they keep doing this?" The U.S. Federal Reserve gave a partial answer recently when it abandoned a five-month-old commitment to keeping rates low "for a considerable period"--a statement widely interpreted to mean that rates are headed upward later this year. That's a growth brake...
There are empty seats at some of Barack Obama's meetings now. His media coverage isn't as breathless as it used to be. His poll numbers have been static, with the important exception of Iowa, where he is creeping upward. His performances have been static too, nourishing but unexciting. He has been more herbivore than carnivore in debates. All of which occasioned that most banal of modern journalistic ceremonies in the days leading up to the Oct. 30 Democratic debate: a fevered, unsolicited-advice orgy. None of the advice was substantive, of course. It was all about tactics...
...original movie, with Charles Grodin as the heartbreaker (here called Lenny), Jeannie Berlin as Lila and Cybill Shepherd as the adored Kelly, was a more direct parable of ambition for mobility - upward mobility. Lenny and Lila were identifiably Jewish, including the crushed glass at the wedding and the honeymoon at a Miami Beach hotel. Lila's worst crimes are eating candy bars in bed and whining, which is understandable, considering that her husband has abandoned her three days into their marriage. Kelly is the blond shiksa dreamgirl (closer to the remake's Lila than to the fair-haired Miranda), whose...
...habit of lengthening his vowels. The track’s chaotic arrangement and nonsensical lyrics introduce the jovial insanity that permeates the entire album. “Gown” rolls seamlessly into “Magic Vs. Midas,” which starts out subdued and slowly builds upward into tenser and more earnest territory. Like “Magic,” “Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days” is not what it initially seems: what begins as a somewhat silly candy-covered synth-pop wash evolves subtly into...
...mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month run, more than 2 million people filed in to enjoy the paradox of the outdoors brought indoors, to lie gazing upward at their reflection in the mirrored "sky" and to meditate on how we can submit ourselves to illusions even when we know that's what they...