Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I haven't gone through some kind of hell," says Scott. "Practically every day, someone calls me a nigger." He sits in his modest apartment in a suburb called Justice, about four miles southwest of Cicero, ironing his five-year-old son's jeans for school. On the wall hangs a prayer: "Lord, help me to realize that nothing can happen today that you and I can't handle." Scott's wife D'Andrea tries to comfort him after each racial incident by saying, "Don't worry about it, that person was sick...
...realist observation -- how much more concrete and present the Bellellis seem to us, surrounded by the furniture and other stuff of their lives, than the people on the neutral brown grounds Manet borrowed from Velazquez! -- it is also an allegory of family continuity under stress. The drawing on the wall behind Laura Bellelli is Degas's grandfather Hilaire, and she is pregnant, so that four generations, not two, are present in the picture...
...HIRE SOME OF THOSE M.B.A.S TO GO MAKE SOAP IN CINCINNATI. The crash should help U.S. industrial companies by slowing the investment-banking brain drain, in which so many of the most talented business school graduates were going to Wall Street. Recruiters for companies ranging from General Motors to IBM find that 1988 grads are showing a renewed interest in running factories rather than financings...
...some metropolitan areas for houses in the $400,000-to-$600,000 price range. Those were the yuppie domiciles that brokers, traders and investment bankers in their thirtysomethings could well afford during bull-market days. Prices have not fallen drastically yet, but hardly anyone is buying, especially in Wall Street's primary bedroom, Connecticut, and favorite resort, Long Island's Hamptons...
...LEAVE THE PITS PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS? Trading volume at the Chicago Board Options Exchange has plunged 43% in the first eight months of 1988, compared with the same period the previous year. During the bull market, the exchange had boomed partly because stock investors had hedged their Wall Street bets by buying options contracts. But now business is so slow that 150 of the exchange's 1,200 employees have been given severance packages. One of the most renowned traders on the exchange, Jack Keller, 45, has moved his family back to Las Vegas and temporarily resumed...