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Take that title literally: This is No Country for Old Men. It may be no country for any life form more evolved than a Gila Monster. We're talking West Texas here, not far from the U.S.-Mexican border. The landscape is as bleak as the moon's dark side and its relatively few inhabitants lead lives that are scrubbed down to the basics. That is to say, it is pretty much kill or be killed in the Coen brothers adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's spare and unsparing novel...
...It’s the same theme as Cormac’s book,” he says, in reference to the arbitrary incidents that propel the story forward. “It’s what happens to Llewellyn.”Despite the film’s dark and bleak tone, Brolin remembers his time on set with the other actors as a positive experience.“We had a lot of fun,” he recalls. “It was important to us. We wanted to get away from the tense feeling the script...
...love the wonderful old dark wood atmosphere and the intimacy,” said Christine E. Whiteside, staff assistant at Memorial Church. “When people gather there to worship, you really have a sense of being a small intimate community...
...know when management is lying?" began a favorite saying of Sallie Krawcheck, one of the top securities-industry analysts of the 1990s. "Their lips are moving." Now Krawcheck runs Citi's wealth-management division, a bright spot in the most recent earnings report, and she's a dark-horse contender for the top job. Rubin, already known for the cryptic nature of his utterances at Treasury, seems to have taken her words to heart, letting little slip in public...
This is fine for the summer, during which post-work walks or scrimmages actually take place. It’s stupid, however, for the winter, when people who have to rise early would need to spend an extra hour in the cold and dark pre-dawn. Privileging the late-risers for the entire year (by doing away with the recent switch back to Standard) would be wrong...