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...profit margins of Korean companies suddenly became anorexic. Manufacturers like carmaker Kia Motors and steelcaster Hanbo have collapsed. Yet the chaebol kept begging for money, and their bankers kept obliging. Result: loans to Korean companies have reached an amount equal to 165% of Korea's GDP, and rumors abound that the country may seek an International Monetary Fund rescue. Seoul, however, denies...
...Star Wars Trilogy has maintained such constant and long-lived popularity. Unlike GGI, the then ground-breaking, now obsolete, special effects did not free the filmmakers from craftily having to introduce, present, disguise and surround the illusions they created. As a result, the battle sequences in Star Wars abound with solid directing, editing and score-writing; indeed they required these skills to make the analog effects technology not come off as cheesy. The recent release of the Special Edition Star Wars movies, in which select passages were upgraded with computer technology, is a powerful example of how good story-telling...
...abrupt endings of various segments of the film (insert commercial here) and the ominous narration. A startled viewer might initially mistake Blood Money for "Unsolved Mysteries": even the most innocuous events are made to sound sinister, and phrases like "the darker questions [about Swiss neutrality] are beginning to emerge" abound...
...AIDS is a primary concern of the text, but the truer, larger battle waged in Angels in America is for spiritual wellness. Most of the play's characters meet each other at one point or another: in offices, in hospital wards, in dreams and in hallucinations. Visions and visitations abound. Reality curlicues easily into fantasy until the play's final moment, when the two are permanently fused...
Examples of a close association between sports and city abound--Broadway Joe Namath uses his big-city playboy image to this day; Mickey Mantle, the Oklahoma kid who made it big on America's biggest stage came straight out of a Horatio Alger novel; Hideki Irabu's introduction to New York was Derek Jeter giving him a tour of the Chinatown club scene; and let us not forget the New York Knicks, the lovable bullies of the NBA--the civic myth of New York lives a charmed life within its sports scene...