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To mention only its most salient defect, here was a book announcing the failure of market economics at a time when anybody with the slightest curiosity about the world was transfixed by the sudden collapse of the main alternative to it: socialist central planning.
I strode briskly up to the first glass case--but there I stopped, transfixed.
At a high-school basketball game, Lester is transfixed by a blonde cheerleader named Angela (Mena Suvari), who is twirling alongside his daughter, Jane (Thora Burch).
People who might have spent their day controlling precision systems to turn out cars, cameras, or computer chips sit glassy-eyed and transfixed in front of a pachinko pinball machine, doing nothing but watching hundreds of little metal balls going nowhere.
But that, of course, is the real and present issue that neither congressional party addressed, transfixed as they and the media are by the fantasy budgets offered on the campaign trail by their respective standard-bearers.