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...this retro crime comedy had been a Broadway play, it would have closed out of town. But movies last forever, so Emily Watson will have to explain to her grandkids what she was doing as a dim private eye who pretzels the language ("You killed somebody dead") but solves a Chandleresque mystery. Rudolph (Afterglow) is the perp of the year's most un-sit-throughable caper. Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney, Nathan Lane and Will Patton are the accomplices. And you, poor viewer, are the victim...
...water bottle as a trampoline; not enough thrust. They've huddled under the clothes of a giant scarecrow, but the garment ripped, leaving them exposed. After so many failures, the prisoners are distressed and balky. "We haven't tried not trying to escape," says Bunty. Babs, her dim friend, nods brightly. "That might work...
...With a broken hand suffered by junior co-captain Will Hench, who was kept on the bench for three weeks to recuperate, Harvard's prospects for competing for the Ivy League championship began to dim...
...Greenspan nervous. "The dominant view had been to expect a further one-quarter percent rate hike in June, but if the economy continues to show strength that may well turn into a half-point increase," says TIME Senior Business Writer Bernard Baumohl. "Even in increments, the rate increases eventually dim the outlook for profits, and that has an impact on the market. The Fed has been stepping more and more firmly on the brake to slow the economy, but investors are clearly uncertain as to whether the brakes have yet taken hold...
Still, the prospects for renewed dialogue "don't look that dim," said Stephen W. Bosworth, the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea...