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...stock market is a funhouse mirror of the U.S. economy. It reflects business trends and public expectations in highly exaggerated form, but there is usually enough reality underlying the distortions so that it cannot be ignored. This is especially true now that the market affects the wealth of 100 million Americans, who have at least an indirect stake in stocks through mutual funds, pension funds and insurance policies. For the past three weeks, the market has been projecting a mood of deep nervousness. By last week, eleven straight daily declines had dragged the Dow Jones industrial average down...
...Armchair-1917; 33. By the Sea-1920; 34. Three Women at the Spring-1921; 35. Sleeping Peasants-1919; 36. Three Dancers-1925; 37. Plaster Head and Limbs-1925; 38. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait-1929; 39. Bather Playing with a Ball-1932; 40. Girl Before a Mirror-1932; 41. Nude on a Black Couch-1932; 42. Weeping Woman-1937; 43. Still Life with Red Bull's Head-1938; 44. Woman with Green Hat-1939; 45. Night Fishing at Antibes-1939; 46. Cat Eating a Bird...
Scoreboard Mentality. Their show, its creators say, is not intended to make invidious judgments about television. "We're just holding up a mirror to a mirror," notes Margolies. Yet their selection and juxtaposition of slides add up to a sardonic view of the TV age and of the current Administration. A still depicting Tricia Nixon's wedding is followed, for example, by the nuptials of Miss Vicki and Tiny Tim. Adler and Margolies are certainly critical of TV's "scoreboard mentality"-their slides cut rapidly from weather statistics to sports results to air-pollution ratings...
...quick decision after he saw what Dr. Kurt Wagner, a Beverly Hills surgeon, did for his girl friend. "I told Wagner: 'I want what you did to Jan.' " A week later, he underwent a three-hour, $800 blepharoplasty (eyelid operation). "Now," jokes Holmes, "I look into the mirror every morning and say: 'God you're beautiful...
Looking backward two and a half years, the seizure of University Hall seems an innocent act, and Dick a mirror of that innocence. It seems little more than a scribble of outrage on a wall that separated us from the thousand outrages of the war and a University administration that was hurrying to stay even step with the thundering war machine. We believed that we had positively torn that wall down, but more likely, the tremor was only within us--a shudder at the sudden demystification of University liberalism. For that momentary alteration of power relations within the University...