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...every woman has made the heartbreaking choice to leave Mabini. Shyrelyn Esguerra Diaz - "Baby" to her friends - still lives in Little Italy with her 5-year-old son Magnus in a comfortable home with high ceilings and a grassy yard out front. Sitting on the couch next to his mom, Magnus lets out a wheeze of concentration, his chubby thumbs flying on a video game, while Diaz wonders aloud whether she should move to Rome, where she can earn more money and join her husband who already works there. When Magnus first overheard her saying that her work permit...
...originated this shocking moment. For those of you who expected tons of blood and guts in the movie, take a shot in sadness, because the movie will disappoint you. 6. Whenever Michael could have killed Laurie by running instead of walking. 7. When Michael sneaks up behind the couch where Laurie is sitting and tries to stab her, yet misses by four feet. This is the cheesiest, most irritating action that later slasher movies rip off. 8. No, I take it back. Every time Laurie thinks she’s slain the killer and drops the knife right next...
...Cable TV also has free, night-on-the-couch appeal for the cash-strapped, plus another advantage. The research firm SNL Kagan says cable TV advertising will have grown an impressive 10.7% by the end of 2008, as channels like ESPN and Lifetime continue siphoning viewers away from broadcast TV. Next year cable ad revenues will grow only 4.7%, Kagan predicts, because of the recession. But when squeezed companies slash their advertising budgets, cable has the cushion of a second revenue stream - about 50% of its cash comes from affiliate fees paid by cable operators...
...faults, the Roth of Indignation is interested in subjects outside himself: war, politics, history, death, things that impinge on the warm bubble of self and family. Whereas Portnoy tells his story from a psychiatrist's couch, Marcus narrates Indignation from beyond the grave (or possibly from a morphine coma). He has been drafted into the Korean War--a draft for which Portnoy was a year too young--and he has fallen on the battlefield. You could read this as Roth's quasi-Oedipal execution of his younger alter ego, but it plays more like a correction: Wake up, Portnoy, there...
...platform quotations from such political thinkers as Jerry Garcia and Jim Morrison, his TV commercial showing him as an Action Figure doll doing battle with the Evil Special Interest Man. ("I don't want your stupid money," growls the Ventura doll.) Some may call it the Revenge of the Couch Potatoes, but Ventura's campaign galvanized younger Minnesotans. They swarmed to the polls to register and vote on Election Day--Minnesota law allows same-day registration--in such numbers that some polling places ran out of ballots and had to run off copies. This surge of new voters explains...