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...acting out of the mingled fascination and fear that surrounds this, a way of playing it out in a kind of harmless way." For some, anyway. Survivor rates best with the young and the well-off--those who grew up with computers as helpers and playmates, those who use "nannycams" to watch the hired help from the office monitor. Where you stand on VTV, it seems, largely depends on where you stand on technology...
...also when his mixture of high concept with cheap materials--chain link fencing, corrugated metal, pressed plywood--was getting his work labeled "populist," which generally means brainy but cheap. In 1981, when he was named Architect of the Year by his peers in California, he figured he should use the opportunity to accept his prize with a talk titled "I'm Not Weird...
...talent would produce something more challenging than a cinematic gangsta-rap song. The original Shaft--one of the first black movie heroes to talk back to the Man and get away with it--meant something special to blacks like me who came of age during the '70s. We could use another hero like that now. Instead we got the shaft...
What's the right way to use options? Say you're going to buy a house in October and will need to sell stock to raise the down payment. You could sell now and put the cash in the bank. Nothing wrong with that. But if you're banking on a depressed stock like Microsoft and think it will rebound, options can protect you against further erosion while giving you much of the potential gain...
...general, use options only in tandem with stocks in your portfolio--to lock in gains and protect against events like an earnings report or a court ruling. There are exceptions, like Grandma's bull-call spread. That's a fairly conservative play in which you buy one long-term call option and sell another at a higher strike price. You lock in most of the difference--though the stock must go up, and if it goes way up, you lose the excess gain. If you've got a big portfolio, odds are there is an options strategy for you. Talk...