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Like many sweet old buffers, he admired authority. He painted the artists lining up for the Salon des Independants as an army of black-clad troops, carrying paintings of identical size; it was a parody of the military metaphor of the avant-garde. Rousseau wanted honors, like his heroes. When...
Since the only raw materials for arbitrage are money and information, Boesky makes research his obsession. While standing and pacing behind his desk, he watches traders on two video screens and works a 160-line telephone console to keep in touch with 100 employees and hundreds of tipsters. Before plunging...
Obsession with the movies and immersion in fantasy are themes close to Woody Allen's heart. "My golden years of moviegoing were the '40s," he told TIME Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka. "I used to come away from those films with my mind racing, great longings and hopes stirred. You wanted...
"I've been obsessed with the same topic for two years," said Julie A. Alverez '85. She said she plans to continue her obsession, but thinks she'll "take a leave of abscence from the topic for a while."
The regime's insistence on maintaining a facade of normality reveals the leadership's deep fear of political discontinuity. The same conservative instinct is an important reason why there is no codified process for changes in command and no real tradition of how such changes should be made. The Kremlin...