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...will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard and his ministers have been extolling the proposed new system's fairness, choice and protections - soothing words that seek to hide the darker side of a deregulated labor market and that obscure the true scale of the risks and opportunities of globalization...
...Fifteen Minutes’ scrutiny “Why Not Scientology” (Oct. 13), by Annie M. Lowrey, presented only one narrow side of a disturbing organization. Lowrey’s human-interest journalism approach, focusing on an individual’s experience with Scientology, ignores the darker sides of the organization: its pseudo-scientific approach to medicine that has led to inadequate health care for the children raised in some Scientologist families; the criminal charges brought against senior officers of the organization’s leadership, including the founder’s wife, for harassing Internal Revenue Service...
...show on the phone. A late-night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes and moves itself inside a handbag made of the skin of a dog. Link casts her spells like an expert; these tales are far darker, crueler and sadder than their premises suggest...
...Mills brought me out to the set in Portland, Ore., where he was re-creating my upbringing (or my fictional version of it), using people who were much better looking than I remembered. Lou Taylor Pucci, who plays Justin (the character I had modeled on myself), is shorter and darker-haired than I am, but his aura and manner were so weirdly familiar that I shivered when I shook his hand. I shivered again when Pucci winked at me and popped his right thumb into his mouth, performing the act without any of the embarrassment that still haunted...
Expectations were that Altman would take Companion's mixture of sentiment and gentle satire and make it moodier and darker. Not so, says Keillor. "I made it darker, by introducing the conceit of the last show." In the movie, the show has been sold to a conglomerate, whose axman (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives at the end of the broadcast to shut it down. No wonder the Angel of Death (Virginia Madsen) is gliding through the theater's wings...