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...ingenuity in its premise and the ingratiating voice cast, the movie works better as a sci-fi action picture - with some extraterrestrial vistas that come close to WALL-E's in their palette and precision - than as a comedy. That's understandable. As the first of its kind, M vs A wants to parade the range of its 3-D effects. It's quite a show, from the intergalactic rock slide that starts things off to the climactic destruction of the Golden Gate bridge. That's a tribute to a similar scene in Ray Harryhausen's 1955 It Came from...
...contemporary social issues: urban slums, race prejudice, the scourge (ah, the '50s!) of "juvenile delinquency." It was also a groundbreaking marriage of pop entertainment and "high culture": choreography that featured classical ballet moves, a score with elements of modernist art music, and a story whose tragic arc was as close to grand opera as the American musical had come. (See the top 10 theater productions of the past year...
...nonbanker, what quickly becomes apparent is that the elaborate and formal process for banks' reporting suspicious characters makes it quite possible that a quiet, close-to-the-vest player like Madoff who is not part of any global crime syndicate could operate comfortably for a long time and have a happy bank as his unwitting accomplice. Perhaps in this new push to reform bank practices, that process is worth revisiting...
...Harbage's organization has close ties to the Obama Administration; its head, John Podesta, is a key adviser to the President, who has kept health-care reform high on his domestic-policy agenda. Without reform, the CAP report estimates, families will be paying $1,300 in additional costs annually...
...censorship they suffer. That subversive tactic, which had been quietly tolerated in the past, was recently cracked down on when a pun went viral that involved a mythical animal called a "grass mud horse" - a thinly masked homonym for a very rude Chinese phrase involving sex acts and a close relative. By the time one enterprising netizen had concocted a video clip purporting to show grass mud horses cavorting in an equally mythical (and equally rudely named) desert, China's net nanny swung into action and attempted to erase all trace of the offending animal...