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...array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy. The wise, grandfatherly neighbor from whom Amélie seeks guidance is a misanthropic crank. Even Amélie's beloved goldfish is suicidal...
There is a certain kind of person who thinks a certain other kind of person is a sissy. The first kind thinks it's a birthright to fill up the Silverado, put a cold one in the cupholder, crank up the radio and drive off into the wide open spaces. Mass transit is for pointy-headed Easterners, and every room should be as cool as a meat locker. Don't have enough energy? Drill for it like a crazed dentist. If that doesn't do the trick, let's blast for coal and rebuild Three Mile Island. These are people...
...Tempe, Arizona. Though Mike and I went to different high schools, we met on the local speech and debate circuit, and we started bumping into each other everywhere we went. Mike and I volunteered together at the city museum, served on youth commissions together, talked on the phone and crank-called random Tempeans together. These experiences forged a friendship I valued highly during a period of my life when good friends were hard to find...
...company. That's the image Jos? Ram?n Alvarez Rendueles, Joseph Kinsch and Francis Mer presented in Brussels last week when they announced that the three companies they manage-Spain's Aceralia, Luxembourg's Arbed and France's Usinor-were forging one $30 billion-a-year monster that will crank out 46 million tons of steel in 2002. The new company, which has yet to be named, will be the world's largest, dwarfing the previous No. 1, Japan's Nippon Steel, which turned out 28 million tons last year...
Till then, get on your denims, crank up the Billy Ray Cyrus and practice line-dancing to ?Achy Breaky Heart...