Word: decentering
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...richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman’ persona. Hanks begins the film with a lid on his personality, but gradually relaxes enough to reveal a remarkable warmth. Catch Me If You Can screens...
GANGS OF NEW YORK. In Gangs of New York, Leonardo Dicaprio solidifies his reputation as the savior of super-long historical epics that go tens of millions of dollars over-budget. In his first decent film since Titanic, Dicaprio plays Amsterdam Vallon, another troubled but determined young man struggling against deep social divisions. Last time he was trying to give Kate Winslet a reason to live; this time he wants to kill a guy nicknamed Bill the Butcher. Gangs of New York is as loaded with scenes of bloodshed as Titanic’s had cliches. Like his last memorable...
That's how Gibson, without departing from the conventions of a glossy, well-paced international thriller, gets at something more ominous: what he views as the subtle treason of the marketer, whereby something decent and good (like a painting or a rock song) gets trivialized into an object of commerce. Good faith, through no fault of its own, becomes bad faith. None of which means Orwell was wrong, but there were dangers, real ones, that even he didn't foresee. After all, the age of thought-crime and Newspeak is still a few years off, but 1984 has already been...
DEBORAH KUENSTNER: We are rethinking companies we already own that could surprise the market by initiating a dividend or raising one they already pay--and getting ready to buy more. AIG [0.3%] pays a small dividend and is in this category. We also like Exxon Mobil. They have a decent yield around 2.8%, but our guess is they would do what would be most shareholder friendly, which is to pay out more in dividends...
...odds and possibilities of every possible scenario, from Alan Greenspan's next move to Bill Gates'. This Street is paved with forecasts, what-ifs, educated bets and calibrated probabilities. With one Saddam scenario (the good one) so much conventionally wiser than the others - and at the very least a decent bet - how come stocks keep sputtering...