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...formally end his storied, two-decade run at a board of directors' meeting, Immelt was clearly rarin' to get started. At times, this sharp, self-deprecating Midwesterner could barely contain his enthusiasm, peppering his conversation with exclamations of "I dig it!" or "I'm all over that like a beast!" "Inside the company," he declared, as movers cleared out Welch's Rockefeller Center office to make way for him, "the transition's already over...
MOVIE Sexy Beast. "Spectacular performances. A stylish execution of an original idea...
Fashion is a funny beast. Logic would dictate that in an industry obsessed with youth and trendiness, young designers would be the toast of the day and old hands would be as popular as great-aunts at Christmas. Guess again. Fashion eats its young. And the legends live on and on - treated respectfully until they choose to retire. There's even a special lexicon used to review collections of the old masters, no matter how out of date ("elegant!"), out of touch ("timeless!"), or dowdy ("refined!"). This discrepancy was blatantly apparent at the recent haute couture shows in Paris...
...providentially suited to the purposes of 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week cable television news. They were the tabloid equivalent of war - that is, in the absence of world-historical events or the fall of empires, they filled the news hole, they fed the many-headed media beast. Once the Soviet Union and the Cold War were gone, we have had Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the O.J. Simpson case, Waco, Oklahoma City, the death of Princess Diana, Colombine, the Icarus descent of John Kennedy Jr, Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Elian Gonzalez, and much, much more...
...right. It's the worst summer in movie history. Except for a few lonely lurkers in the art-house shadows, crying for your attention. And no, we do not mean Sexy Beast, a dull, predictable and unattractive caper film that is the inexplicable "quality" hit of the season. Our raves go instead to an internationally eclectic group that includes...