Blonde Analyst

Norma Jean, the Senior Credit Risk Analyst at Lehman Brothers--Senior in her case since she was the only person in the department--is shown right looking up in disbelief after a quick look at the Company's balance sheet while being pink-slipped at this very moment back on The Street.

This is unfortunate because, not unlike many of the hard-chargers at Lehman's, her monthly standing charges, just to keep the Soho pad and the cottage in The Hamptons going, not to mention the cost of pharmaceuticals which have been skyrocketing in both price and quantity of late, are $24,387.32.

Her interview at Lehman's had been memorably brief inasmuch as Credit Risk Analysis was not the firm's number one rainmaker.

The Senior VP for Human Resources had adjusted the tumescence within his bespoke trousers with the nonchalance of a Street veteran and then asked the prospective executrix a random question just to establish her credentials:

"Norma Jean, are you familiar with Roe vs. Wade? Your answer is meaningless, it's a totally random question, you've already got the job, but just for the record--"

Norma Jean pondered the question; then finally said, 'Roe vs. Wade? Wasn't that the decision George Washington had to make before he crossed the Delaware?'"