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) Instead of calming jittery investors, the two mandated breaks induced more panic, and were portrayed by the electronic press as evidence of a major crash.
Next, coffee makers will admit that caffeine makes some people jittery, and Nabisco will admit that peanut butter and Ritz crackers are just a match made in heaven."
And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.
That, and the way youthful twitchiness and uncertainty--from an uncomfortably pandering Ruth Brown to an amateurish Frankie Lymon to a jittery Elvis Presley--formed a new musical vocabulary.
Whenever wages start to go up a bit--God forbid, workers should see their salaries jump--Wall Street gets jittery about inflation and the Fed pumps the brakes.
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