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...diagnostic test for allergies, the firm was still "losing money like crazy." But Greene decided to go public, hoping to sell 2 million shares at $20. In the two months it took to organize the sale, the market plunged; Hybritech sold only 1.2 million shares at $11. "A window was slamming shut," Greene recalls...
...temple covered with erotic statuary and guarded by a large troop of anarchically aggressive monkeys. Later, going to testify at Aziz's trial, she must drive through a crowd raging at her, and a man in a monkey costume leaps on her car, pressing his face menacingly against the window. Is it this echo that impels her to testify that she was the victim of a hallucination and thus free Aziz from his anguish? The movie is silent on the point, allowing us to make what we will of the image...
...write in the burbs, can't stand the entanglement. Can he write in the Village? Well, he's trying, but his roiling thoughts won't order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding about traditional marriage: "battling, shrieking and occupying each other's brains like some terrible tumor until one of them dies." A theme here? Apparently not; he goes on to muse about middle age ("On the whole...
...incidence of respiratory cancer is higher in Chemical Valley than in the nation as a whole. Says Wayne Ferguson, a West Virginia State official: "My father, who never smoked or drank in his entire life, had cancer of the larynx. He was a professor at the college. His classroom window looked out at the plant." Ferguson would "love to see the plant close," but adds, "I'm probably in the minority around here...
...said her conception of the play came from living in a run down area of New York City. "I look out my window at New York and it is "Endgame," she said, explaining that "there are these communities of men who sit around parks and subways have their own strange language and are somewhat mentally disturbed...