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...matter how frustrating the whole affair was, no one can deny that it was an exciting game. It was a spectacular show, a brilliant display by two young and immensely talented quarterbacks...
Chang does not attempt complicated sociological explanations. She simply tells stories and anecdotes, in straight chronological order, with little contrivance, providing real-life fables as open-ended answers to the puzzles of 20th century China. All this takes the form of a spectacular adventure traced from Chang's 19th century great-grandmother, who was born and given no name, to her grandmother, who was bartered into concubinage in exchange for a government position, to her mother, who was too smart and too pragmatic to be considered a good Communist by the party...
...first book, Dennis Levine's Inside Out: An Insider's Account of Wall Street, is junk, bound. Don't waste your time. Instead, to learn about Levine and Ivan Boesky and particularly about Mike Milken, read James B. Stewart's spectacular Den of Thieves. I read it because, like most people, I wasn't entirely sure. Was Milken, though guilty, the victim of a witch hunt over largely technical violations? Were he and his faithful servants, like Arthur Liman (for the defense) and Ken Lerer (for the p.r. machine), the ones I should root for? Hah! For the first time...
Today's pretty women represent a new breed: mannequins with sex appeal, as glamorous as cinema legends, as visible as the designers whose clothes they parade. They earn spectacular loot from their spectacular looks. Because, more than ever, modeling is about money. At a time when spending is down, top mannequins can still make consumers buy, so they are paid millions. The worldwide recession and tough times in the advertising business have made the top models one of the few reliable sales tools...
During a period of spectacular and almost entirely happy endings -- the Kremlin's capitulation in its global rivalry with the U.S., the emancipation of Eastern Europe, the dismantling of the last vestiges of the Stalinist police state and the retirement without honor of the mother of all Communist Parties -- it has been sufficient for Bush to lead the decorous applause. But now the situation is changing in ways that no longer play to his strengths...