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...with menace because Tarantino plants plot elements that blossom later for maximum impact. When Colonel Landa asks one of the ladies for her shoe and, at a restaurant, orders milk for the other, you feel nooses tightening around their necks and yours. In these scenes and another in a basement bar where the smallest wrong gesture cues a bloodbath, Tarantino shows how to achieve drama through whispers and forced smiles. The parallel plot of a budding romance between Shosanna and a German war hero (Daniel Brühl) has a similar trajectory - the pot simmers, then the lid blows...
Private-equity players are betting they'll be able to snap up the securities at bargain-basement prices. After all, the debt will come due amid rising unemployment and a deepening meltdown in the commercial real estate market...
Just a few weeks after the Modin quarantine, senior officials from across the U.S. government gathered in the basement of the West Wing to begin planning for the siege to come. On the flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic; 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957; and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing...
...Washington Home Sales on the Upswing At last, some good news on the housing front. In June, sales of new U.S. one-family homes saw their strongest increase in more than eight years as buyers hurried to take advantage of bargain-basement prices, low interest rates and a federal tax credit for first-time homeowners. Home prices are still dropping, however, with the median June figure of $206,200 down 12% from $234,300 a year earlier. And with a huge backlog of unsold homes, analysts continue to disagree on whether the higher-than-expected increase signals a coming recovery...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Clubbing in Uruguay seemed reminiscent of a sweaty, high-school basement rave...