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...these potentates getting a congressional word-whipping as if they were the chastised bosses of the tobacco industry or a poisoned-peanut-butter factory. Real old-timers who tuned in to the charade might have gone dewy-eyed in reminiscence of Depression days. That's when bandits like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were outlaw heroes, and the big villains were the bankers, who foreclosed on homes and farms, sent widows and orphans into the streets to beg and stoked a vivid genre of populist movies that forged in the mass audience's mind an indelible image of the pompous...
...According to the University of Michigan survey, one-third of consumers cited fears over job security and income level as reasons for delaying purchases of household items including furniture and appliances. Jennifer Barrow, a writer for the TV show King of the Hill, says her extended family is considering limiting all Christmas gifts to $25 and may skip presents for adults. "While the financial crisis has not hit me personally, I am concerned," says the Burbank, Calif., single mother. "I am definitely trying to follow a budget for the first time and rein in spending...
...holidays. Shops selling necessities may weather the Christmas storm best. "The stores that will do well are the ones selling what you have to have to survive and selling it cheaply," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting and investment-banking firm. Says Barrow, the Burbank TV writer: "Every financial decision I make, I now ask myself, Do I really need this...
...beautiful, sinister in its power to alternately engage and enslave the listener. When the group announced their long awaited follow-up to 1997’s “Portishead” late last year, they already had a serious reputation to live up to.So how did Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley try to return to the heights they reached in 1994? By annihilating them and starting all over again. Fans of the group will be listening intently for any trace of “Dummy” on “Third,” but other than...
Ultimately Hartnett injects himself with vampire blood so that he can fight vampire with vampire. This monumental sacrifice means he flakes away into a million pieces when the sun rises on the handful of survivors in Barrow, but it’s probably for the best; we don’t really want to remember he made this movie anyway...