Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their employers are now to be held accountable for insider transgressions, that development may be deserved. Many Wall Street firms have imposed unrealistic expectations on their traders and bankers without giving them a solid grounding in old-fashioned ethical values. By pushing salaries and bonuses to outlandish heights, investment firms have turned money into the ultimate measure of success. Declares Felix Rohatyn, senior partner of the investment firm Lazard Freres, in an essay for the New York Review of Books: "Too much money is coming together with too many young people who have little or no institutional memory, or sense...
...outlandish conglomeration of literary devices...
...contrast to the electric moodiness of Hitchcock's last studio album, Element of Light, the songs here are mostly acoustic and feature some nifty harmonica tooting. This choice of instrumentation gives Invisible a homey feel, even if the subject matter is outlandish and alienating. In fact, listening to this record is kind of like inviting the neighborhood psychopath to jam on your front porch...
Hair-raising, unpredictable, frighteningly volatile -- just about every scary term imaginable was being used last week to describe the outlandish behavior of the stock market. Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history. First the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks zoomed up 64 points in the space of five hours of trading, to a high of 2210. Then, just as suddenly, the Dow nose-dived, swinging down an amazing 115 points in 71 minutes. At times there literally were no buyers on the trading floor of the New York...
While Allen is not breaking new ground with these episodes, he does manage to capture the humorous and outlandish spirit of the era. The individual vignettes are at least a pleasant release from the overwrought sentimentalism of the family scenes...