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...Beyond its trademark cola, Pepsi has 17 distinct brands, ranging from Lay's and Doritos to Cheetos and Quaker Foods, that each generate more than $1 billion a year in sales. That's a power portfolio by any measure. But this year has taken a big bite out of the company's profitability. Cost inflation of close to 10% in 2008 means each bag of chips has cost Pepsi more to produce, even as belt-tightening consumers resist paying more for their food. Earlier this year, skyrocketing prices for corn, rice, wheat, vegetable oils and other key ingredients further added...
...ease of crafting metaphors between Obama’s campaign and a messianic cult presents a distinct cause of concern. His youthful adherents have set their expectations too high for not only his presidency but also the salvific effects of any politician or political system. Without a religion of their own, their faith is in Obama and the political process—with potentially disastrous effects for the size, scope, and sanctity of our government...
...animation studios, Pixar and DreamWorks, stand above the rest as multibillion-dollar box-office titans and as entertainment delivery systems. But they have distinct, nearly opposite artistic personalities. Pixar (Toy Story, Finding Nemo, WALL-E) is the clear avatar of the Walt Disney style, stressing sympathetic characters and seamless storytelling. DreamWorks (the Shrek trilogy, Shark Tale) updates the dazzle and impudence of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of the '30s, '40s and '50s - a faster pace, lots of sight gags and pop-culture allusions; its movies tend toward anarchy but land in vaudeville. DreamWorks is contemporary, Pixar timeless. Both work...
...gets bad reviews.” Vartikar-McCullough is excited by the challenge of directing this show, which has tested so many other directors. To overcome the long line of bad reviews, Vartikar-McCullough plans to bring the show back to Williams’s intentions and incorporate a distinct approach to directing. “Tennessee Williams clearly wanted it to be an abstract, absurdist kind of thing. More well put, it was this bizarre world and an incredibly intense emotional situation. Every time, the bizarre world is ignored.” Vartikar-McCullough is playing up this abstract...
...Juvenile. They have an eccentric whiff of the Strokes about them too, but it’s only when you think of all these artists at once that you come up with something close to the Knux. The duo’s more original sounds come from two distinct geographical flavors running beneath the surface of the album. The Knux show off both their past New Orleans roots and their present L.A. outlook in seductively smooth jazz interludes mingled with multilayered club beats and improvised piano segments that sit harmoniously with the jerky twangs of an electronic guitar. The rapping...