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...focusing on a few carefully chosen scenes. "It's all a question of degree," says an executive at a rival studio. "In the case of In the Bedroom, even if they cheated to get you in, chances are you still liked the movie." Indeed, moviegoers usually don't complain about obfuscation in trailers; they do complain that trailers give too much away. There's a reason for this, and studios have the test results to prove it. When trailers are market-tested with focus groups, says Seismic's Schneiderman, "the No. 1 criticism people have is 'I don't know...
It’s easy to complain about the 4.9 percent tuition hike for Harvard undergraduates announced last Thursday. None of us (or our parents) are particularly excited about paying $1,681 more next year, especially with our $18.3 billion endowment far exceeding that of any other school in the nation...
MALEVOLENT: (while starting a nuclear war) No! Those rotten do-gooders on the Katz Committee made us promise to pay you a wage between $10.83 and $11.30, so stop whining about our $11.00 deal. Even PSLM-types can’t complain that we aren’t offering a living wage...
...different parts of the world. Would disabling all stolen IMEI numbers be such a bad idea? "Imagine you have 100 phones with the same IMEI, and you cut them all off," says Jack Wraith, a spokes-man for the U.K.'s Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum. "One person will complain, and 99 criminals will shrug and say, 'Well, I had a good time while it lasted...
...exile. The rest are in jail—although jail might be too kind a word for what is, to all intents and purposes, a system of warm-weather gulags. Unlike Coyula-Cowley, they don’t have the opportunity to cruise through American supermarkets and then complain to the Boston Globe that “there are too many choices” here. They aren’t pulling down a $50,000 salary, and can’t say smugly, as Harvard’s new professor did in the Globe, that “money isn?...