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...watching her stoke Ronald's ardor while plotting his death. When she is with him, pleading and salesmanship radiate from her big eyes. But when an ally asks her why she keeps encouraging the lad, she sneers and says, "I am giving him a beautiful illusion. Which I shall crush...
...shouts a refrigerator salesman swilling iced gin at the bar and listening to the Filipino country-and-western band. "What matters is what the people like." And the people can't get enough of cowboys. Happy hour at the Seventeen Saloon, from 5 to 8 p.m., is a convivial crush of Vietnamese cutting loose. One tip: if you're planning to pay a visit, make sure to get there early, as the action is likely to wind down just after midnight. This town may have changed, but it ain't changed that much, pardner...
...have trod lightly because they recognized the benefits to consumers, according to Deborah Thoren-Peden, a partner at the Pillsbury Winthrop LLP law firm and head of its consumer-and-retail-practice group. "They were concerned that if they said a lot of laws applied to them, it would crush the industry," she says...
...sells in Asia, have taken their profits and invested in Treasury bonds--all of which are losing value as the dollar slips. At this point, Asians have little choice but to hold on and take their lumps, and not just because the large-scale dumping of dollars would crush the value of their remaining holdings. Shifting out of dollars could also be dangerous for the global economy, pushing the beleaguered currency even lower and triggering sharply higher interest rates in the U.S. That in turn would slow the U.S. economy and depress demand for all those imported goods, potentially triggering...
Bardem and Rueda are the highlights of a uniformly strong cast. Limited to using only his face, Bardem manages to communicate a wide spectrum of human emotion with virtually zero self-conciousness. From her very first scene, Rueda stands like pillar holding up an enormous weight that threatens to crush her, and this notion informs even her slightest word and gesture. They both bring their characters to life fantastically, giving the audience reason to feel for them and to follow their story...