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Shadows and Fog ends -- perhaps a little too abruptly -- as so many of ! Allen's recent films do, with a touch of magic realism. But that too achieves a surprisingly apt stylistic fit. The scope of this short piece may be small, but it is also a vivid, vigorous and often entrancing movie...
When a writer for the stage reveals great promise but has not yet produced fully satisfying work, old hands are apt to remark, "I'm not sure there's a play here, but there's certainly a playwright." Just such tempered optimism is being triggered right now by two emotionally intense, fiercely funny and sadly flawed works by dramatists in their early 30s. One writer -- Howard Korder -- has the slam-bang dialogue and macho preoccupations of a David Mamet in training. The other -- Jon Robin Baitz -- can infuse domestic drama with the burdens of history in the fashion...
...liquidation" division: "So notorious was Kang's taste for inflicting pain . . . it earned him a title," the King of Hell. The authors compare him with Iago, Rasputin and Stalin's secret-police chief, Lavrenti Beria. In spite of the book's rather breathless style, the analogies seem apt...
Tsongas' befuddlement over his schedule can serve as a metaphor for the plight of his underfunded and ill-organized campaign as it struggles to transform New Hampshire hoopla into a full-throated national crusade. But the where-am-I-going question is also an apt shorthand for the unpredictable Democratic race itself, a bizarre contest that has made political pundits look as reliable as racetrack touts...
...should rush to put their nest eggs into Zimbabwean stocks. The risk to a hard-currency investor of losing on conversion what has been won in local currency is only one of the hazards. All markets fluctuate, but small exotic markets, often thin and subject to political instability, are apt to fluctuate more. Nonetheless, sophisticated investors and their brokers cannot ignore the opportunities provided by the extraordinary diversity of market performance. Nowadays there is always money to be made somewhere in the world...