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Scorsese By Ebert By Roger Ebert The University of Chicago Press; 314 pages...
...when, after being a film critic for only seven months, he went out on a limb to lavish praise on a first-time filmmaker by the name of Martin Scorsese - penning the first-ever writeup for this unknown New Yorker whose debut feature I Call First premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival...
...areas of the country are suffering equally. In Chicago last month, Donald Trump stood atop his new, 92-story condo-hotel tower just off this city's most prominent boulevard, Michigan Avenue. "There's an economic disaster going on in the country," Trump dryly acknowledged. "A lot of things you think will be built in Chicago and elsewhere will never be built. The banks are shut down. But we got this one built, and we're proud of it." Getting it built and getting it sold are two different things, however. Many of the gleaming building's units remain...
...locales, and also allowed the company to carve a niche in neighborhoods that supermarket chains neglect. Operating costs are as spare as the rest of the place. At any given time, there are fewer than five staffers inside an Aldi store. On a recent afternoon at a location on Chicago's North Side, for instance, there were just two cashiers, an employee replenishing milk shelves and a security guard greeting customers. Customers are encouraged to bring their own shopping bags, reducing the need for plastic bags, which are sold at 10 cents apiece...
...with "club crawls" of Detroit's most exclusive bars, later claiming the events were intended to motivate the city's disaffected youth. That he insisted on a 21-person security team drew ridicule from local residents and politicians, who were quick to note that even the mayor of Chicago, a city three times the size of Detroit, only required 15 bodyguards. He routinely donned a diamond-studded earring and wore flashy suits, even as the city's budget crisis deepened and its population dwindled - threatening its rank as the nation's 11th-largest city. In 2005, a local TV reporter...