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These sequences, like those with the driving instructor, are typical of Mike Leigh at his best. He works in an improvisatory yet controlled, way with his actors to shape and sharpen his material, and when that technique works, as it so often does in this movie, the results are unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy-Go-Lucky: Chipper with a Twist | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

Comcast got the message. The company is paying a 25˘-per-share dividend, buying back $7 billion in stock, paring capital expenditures and canceling a scheme to keep paying Ralph Roberts after he dies. Greenberg now says Comcast is coming around, "The company is doing what shareholders want in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comcast's Challenge | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

I thought the bracelet debacle was the end of it. An old man with the heady impetuousness of youth wove a tired tale, and a young man with the calmness of a Socratic law professor called him out. “No soldier dies in vain.” It...

Author: By Elise Liu | Title: Democracy 0, Man-Bracelets 1 | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

“My characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Indignation’ Incites Anger | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Martin Amis is a cold-hearted bastard.I don’t know that for certain, of course, but I can’t see how anyone with any true emotion or sensitivity could produce the 14 pieces collected in “The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Amis's Hate Grounds 'Plane' | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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