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...destruction. The potency of the film is undiluted by moralizing or even the sense that the story is being "told" from a certain point of view at all. The story of Philipe and Tom proceeds with a fearfully confident inevitability, as if narcissism and desperation had set off a chain reaction in which no outside force could intervene...
...compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck, and the two vehicles were driving slowly along the edge of the lot. Directly opposite Building 131, where Guerrero stood watching, the Mercedes-Benz tanker backed up to the 10-ft.-high chain-link fence that separated the lot from the military area. Two men leaped out of the truck's cab, into the waiting Caprice, and roared away...
...better than the purveyors of products designed to ease or ward off cricks in the lower back. Consumers spent some $2.5 billion last year on such gadgets, and entrepreneurs expect business to get even better. Says Virginia Rogers, president of Relax the Back, the nation's largest back-products chain (55 stores, $30 million in anticipated sales this year): "When I got into this business eight years ago, I expected most of our customers to be senior citizens. I was wrong. It is the baby boomers who insist on comfort and feeling good. And they are willing to spend money...
...course, Tigrett had been there, done that, sold the T shirt when he was heading the Hard Rock chain. His new venture would be, had to be, different. He had been studying Hinduism in India, but now he would find his inspiration in the music of the blues...
Once he settled on the idea of starting his blues chain, Tigrett wisely spread the financial risk by appealing to friends for the start-up money to fund his venture. Dan Aykroyd (who played one of the dark-suited Blues Brothers on TV and in films) chipped in, as did actor Jim Belushi (brother of the late John Belushi, Aykroyd's fellow Blues Brother). Even Harvard University pitched in $10 million because an investment fund it runs liked Tigrett's plan. In all, the resourceful--or at least very well-connected--Tigrett raised about $30 million in private cash...