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...overriding his professionalism. You believe that Pollack's apparent toughness is something of a shell. You sense a curious (and not unsympathetic) naivety in Swinton's corporate lawyer, especially in the scenes where, in private, she works the human kinks out of her public statements ensuring that they remain bland and full of falsity. Above all, the film allows Clooney's character his somewhat tormented relationship with his family real depth. He has moved up and away from them, and there are resentments on both sides. Yet blood is thicker than the watery morality he has embraced in his maturity...
...south, what was the rationale for keeping so many troops in Iraq? Why wasn't there a clearly defined strategic path for dealing with the country's political collapse? Those issues-the strategic ones-were beyond the reach of Petraeus and Crocker. And the Senators were left with bland assurances that the two patriots would continue to do their considerable best to work really, really hard on the situation...
Have we missed out by not going back to the moon in the past three decades? -David Bland, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIAWe went six years without even flying an American in space, from 1975 to 1981. That is unforgivable and inconsistent with a nation that landed six times on the moon. It is all due to the difficulty of a transition from space travel to space stations to deeper space explorations. We are going to have void time...
...itself claims "there is no veto." So as aficionados cry foul and activists congratulate themselves, this summer's lack of bullfights on Channel 1 may indeed be little more than the market at work. Younger generations are certainly less attached to bullfighting than their elders, for whom matadors and bland movies were the primary entertainments. But Sunday afternoons have hardly been cleansed of blood and sand, and bullfighting's departure from public television may even be temporary: the government's proposed new media law would require networks and producers to include programming that "promotes national identity." The question...
...smell (say, by piping the odor of fresh coffee throughout a store), few have focused on the smart use of sound, says retail psychologist Tim Denison of the British Retail Think Tank. But that's changing. U.S. firm Muzak used to be the butt of jokes for its bland elevator music, but it now supplies some 400,000 shops, restaurants and hotels around the world--including Gap, McDonald's and Burger King--with songs tailored to reflect their identity. "What we're trying to capture is a brand's essence," says Bob Finigan, Muzak's vice president of product...