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There have been exceptions to the downdraft, including corporate spin-offs such as Lucent Technology, AT&T's renamed manufacturing division, launched in April for a record $2.7 billion, or $27 per share. Investors pushed the price to $30.63 the first day of trading and have remained bullish on it ever since. It closed last Friday...
...rises upon diamond-scattered snowfields and glistens upon the lucent dragon's teeth. In the distance, three deer, roused from their shelter under pines, venture forth. They struggle and plunge undulously through the opulent white...
...fact, physically, at times, [Richard] felt epiphanically tragic. His doctor had died four year ago ('Unfortunately, I am terminally ill.') And that, in Richard's mature opinion, was definitely that. He had a large and lucent lump on the back of his neck. This he treated himself, by the following means: he kept his hair long to keep it hidden. If you went up to Richard Tull and told him he was in Denial, he would deny it. But not hotly...
...majority of letters are written from sanitariums that Kafka inhabited with restless, despairing frequency during his last years. The eerie, lucent prose quickens into something like paranoia. Kafka fights for sleep: "Enemies everywhere ... Two hundred Prague schoolchildren have been quartered here. A hellish noise, a scourge of humanity." Not quite whining, he painfully records the rise and fall of his temperature, the coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka...
...lucent as Homer's verse. It was time to go to the Aquarium. Huntley, clutching a copy of Great Expectations which had passed his long subway ride, was excited because he had previously visited when the Big Tank was inoperative. We surfaced from Government Center, strolled past City Hall, which he lamented was bereft of plants, threaded through some markets, where Huntley priced artichokes, and finally arrived at the Aquarium. I bought a hot dog so impenetrable that I wondered if it weren't some subtle coral washed ashore and marketed by a humorless entrepreneur...