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...coming, Thailand devalued its currency, the baht, on July 2. Thai stocks promptly skidded 30% and sent tremors through markets in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Stock funds heavily invested in the region fell an average 13%, with some--including Landmark Emerging Asia and Merrill Lynch Emerging Tigers--falling more than 30%, according to Lipper Analytical Services...
...famed one is paradoxically as naked as an exile dispossessed. The celebrity enters into a powerful and potentially dangerous force field, a relationship with masses of people gone slightly insane; sometimes he encounters that side of human nature that forms lynch mobs: the beast. A surreal dynamic goes to work. The famous may find their fortunes held hostage by the moods and attention spans of people they do not know. The unstable affections of fandom have a life of their own and acquire an unpredictable but nearly absolute power over one's personal and professional fate. Fame becomes a form...
Readings include several collections of essays on film theory from the French and Soviet traditions, and a large volume called A Short History of the Movies, featuring sections on film figures from Buster Keaton to David Lynch...
Sophomore Beth Weisman (.750 save percentage, 1.00 goals-against-average) needed just two saves to make the win. Sophomore Meghan Lynch, who has split time in the net with Weisman, has a .571 save percentage...
...shaving his own armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have a ghastly playfulness that evokes David Lynch and Federico Fellini...