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...suppose what I really long for deep down are the movie palaces of old. The Regent, the Roxy; they certainly don’t build them like they used to. However, such classic movie palaces seem confined to an era when double features and newsreels unspooled continuously, and consumer culture was just latching its claws into the American public. Such theaters epitomize the elegance of the films of the past, and emphasize the poor quality of modern film. In that respect, today’s garish theaters are perfect dumping grounds for the latest Hollywood garbage. This past summer produced...
...released, there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming number of award worthy films. One film, however, seems to aspire to return to nostalgic movie magic. As his follow-up to The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, director Frank Darabont returns to a more classic era in The Majestic, his salute to Frank Capra and the movie palaces of old. I’ll be sure to see it away from home...
Social scientists say three types of rumors commonly emerge following a catastrophe: wish-fulfillment rumors, bogey rumors and wedge-driving rumors. The old man's debris ride to safety is a classic wish-fulfillment rumor, as is the story that Osama bin Laden is dying of liver cancer. Bogey rumors (derived from the bogeyman) are based on fear. Poisoned reservoirs, anthrax attacks, the visage of Satan in the World Trade Center smoke and the Klingerman virus (which supposedly arrives through the mail on a sponge in a blue envelope marked "A Gift for You from the Klingerman Foundation") all play...
...software-development labs there, positioning Russia as a competitor to India, the outsourcing leader for code-writing projects. Russia could gain the edge on highly specialized product development because its programmers usually have degrees in math and physics and a solid grasp of computer technology. "These are not classic coders. They are high-level mathematicians who work on complex software," says Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel, which opened a lab in central Russia last year. And at about $12 an hour, the Russians cost less than half as much as their counterparts in California...
...without leaving a lasting impression. The final three tracks, “So Much Beauty in Dirt,” “Here It Comes” and “I Came As a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock)” are throwbacks to classic Modest Mouse style with a combination of vigor and witty lyrics (“The rich get money but never what they want”). It’s clear by the end, however, that there wasn’t enough quality material to cash in on another full-length...