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...still manages to blend Lucas' words into an (almost) seamless narrative journey to the dark side of greed, jealousy and betrayal. A combination of smooth technical savvy, crisp staging and two wonderfully nuanced performances (Lyman and Lopez) creates a freeway of sinful compromise where innocence is only a speed bump. Crass, powerful, aggressive Jeffrey is a perfect match for Elaine's subtle intelligence, creativity and inner isolation. Whenever the struggling couple appear on stage-separated or together-the audience can't help but fantasize about the wonderful story Lucas could have told about them...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dying Gaul: Drama You Can Download | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...have lived in some quite frenetic cities, yet Beirut is the only place where chaos is the order of the day. There is no privacy in this city. For one thing, friends and family drop by unannounced. You will always bump into someone you know, whether at a bar, in a shop or on the streets. A couple of years ago, while scouting a location for a film, I got stuck at a very busy intersection. I considered making a U-turn to avoid gridlock. I asked the traffic officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Journal: Inside a Land of Great Charm and Even Greater Chaos | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

There are exceptions, though. About 10% of Americans, nearly all of whom are obese to begin with, are persistently vulnerable to an annual seasonal bump-up of more than 5 lbs. But overall, most subjects in the study were so out of touch--and so unaccustomed to stepping on a scale--that they believed they had gained as much as four times the amount they actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Stealth Flab | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...value in a single day. More than $11 billion in market value was erased, and the company's brash chairman, Michael Saylor, 35, personally lost $6 billion in paper wealth in less time than it takes to say overvalued dotcom. "There's no doubt this is a bump in the road," Saylor said bravely, "but we signed up to change the world and never believed it was going to be easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E-Numbers Game | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...from work). Meanwhile, various news articles quote anti-inoculation groups as saying the figure is about a thousand. So, if I split the difference and quadruple the military's numbers - to, say, 400 - that's still 1,000 to 1 that I come away with nothing worse than a bump on my arm, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Ready to Take a Bullet, but How About an Anthrax Shot? | 3/15/2000 | See Source »

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