Newspapers glutted themselves on advertising from promoters calling for subscribers to their schemes.Share prices shot up, peaking in 1845, even as the amounts of capital being committed to the industry made competition ever fiercer and business plans ever rosier.
THE EVER-ROSY VIEW -- Nantz's dramatic, whispered reverence never flagged, nor did his retelling of Singh's personal story, which probably caused a global rush to locate the best Fijian courses.
But in some cases, the financial statements look ever so much rosier.
Things were not always so rosy.
Low cost personal computers may be causing havoc on the bottom line equipment makers, but things remain as rosy as ever in the portable computer market.
Then Venice is rosier than ever in the morning and more golden than ever as the day descends.
EARNINGS reports have been coming up rosier than ever for the first quarter of 2000 -- up about 20percentt from the corresponding period last year.
The news came at a moment when British film propects in America looked rosier than ever before.
But now here are democracy, economic growth and membership in the European Union; Poland's future, on the surface, appears rosier than ever.
Mr Leonard argues that an ever-expanding EU has a rosy future, and that its model of a "network" that is more than a gaggle of nation-states but less than a federal superstate is in many ways more alluring than America's.As so often, the truth lies somewhere between these pessimistic and optimistic views.
But this time, the trickster fails: in one single, stark panel, Shanower captures in Clytemnestra's face a shattered shore that the rosy fingers of myth cannot ever touch.
