These cross influences are confused enough that one has to stick with the broader trend that we still view as bond negative.

[Economist Alan Ruskin of I.D.E.A. was one of several Greenspan watchers who said the Fed chairman's remarks were warranted.] (His words) are extremely cautionary, ... They are quite clearly roiling the financial markets. I'm increasingly amused at the tenor of these remarks -- how clear-cut they are.

It's part of a broader trend. Nationwide there are markets that have a ways to go, especially in the Midwest. But we're much closer to the end of the cycle than the peak. Now we're watching how it plays out -- whether it's going to smash into a wall or just level off for a while.

You'd like to stick it in his gazoo.

Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure.

It was a great pass. I don't know how Donovan got that one through. I had my stick on the ice, I didn't even see it coming, it just hit my stick.