Word: alertness
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...sewer chase should alert you that Dragon is a distant descendant of Les MisErables?with Liujian as Jean Valjean, Richard as Javert, Jessica as the prostitute Fantine and Jessica's daughter as Cosette. What's missing here is any attempt at literacy; the script's garish dialogue seems less written than spray painted. Richard spouts a lot of generic tough-guy dialogue ("Bring him to me alive; I'll kill him myself,") while Liujian barely speaks at all ("I'm not your type?" Jessica poutily asks him, and our monastic hero replies, "I don't have type...
INITIAL PUBLIC OUTRAGE It's open season on stock analysts. Merrill Lynch last week prohibited its analysts from owning equity in companies they cover, and the SEC recently issued an alert, cautioning investors that investment banks' brokerage interests potentially compromise their researchers' independence. Investars.com an information service, illustrates that potential: its models show that in the past four years stocks bought and sold based on analyst recommendations have dropped 52.4% when analysts' firms underwrote the IPO and 4.6% when they didn...
...grist to rumors of secret government payoffs. In a gripping new book, Veerappan, The Untold Story (Penguin Books India; 312 pages), journalist Sunaad Raghuram tries to separate the folk legend from the callous outlaw who once reportedly murdered a gang member's child for fear that its cries would alert police who were stalking...
...exciting American architecture. Richard Meier has refined the rules of Modernism to high brilliance. Frank Gehry has exploded those same rules to make some of the great buildings of our time. Why should Holl, at 53, be counted the best of them all? Because his buildings epitomize an architecture alert to emotional needs and the spiritual properties of space. Because he conforms his designs so adroitly to their surroundings. Because he knows how to speak through understatement. For all those reasons, his work is more than beautiful. It's illuminating...
...AUTISM ALERT Developmental disorders among preschoolers are confirmed to be as much as three times as common as once thought. Thanks largely to better screening, nearly 17 in every 10,000 children are found to be autistic. Early intervention is advised...