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...want a friend, buy a dog. Those words are most often attributed to the corporate raider Carl Icahn in the mid-1980s and were later immortalized by the character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street. But given today's hostile environment for even conservative investments like munis and mortgages, you too may be muttering the phrase--right...
...cutting machine installed in March 2007. (Ramirez and other cutters still handle the most expensive and delicate fabrics by hand.) "If you don't believe in a factory, you don't buy new machinery, and other people beat you at quality and productivity," says Del Vecchio. "It's the dog eating its own tail, and in the end, you have to close. That's the story of a lot of American manufacturing." At the Brooks tie factory, they tell a different...
...used to: a somewhat clueless, well-intentioned goofball. Though funny at times, Peter doesn’t gain respect from the audience. He is forced to carry the first half of the movie but can’t quite do so with only weak jokes and puppy-dog looks in his arsenal. The only excitement in the beginning comes from a full-frontal nude scene, which might initially invite disapproval from the audience for its cheap comic appeal. However, the shockingly long duration of the, um, “scene,” redeems Segel by showing that he isn?...
Kicking off last night with a keynote address from conservative gender scholar Camille Paglia—who famously commented that “leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist”—the conference will run all day today, touching upon topics like “sex and the modern girl...
...kitschy, reductive binaries: life versus death, Hispanic versus white.“Her Dog” isn’t a letdown because of its reductive symbolism and overt motifs, but because it’s just an inexplicable anomaly. A man walks his dead wife’s dog out of a sense of obligation. Nice notion—but the story quickly disintegrates into a hokey dialogue between the main character and the dog.In his stories about the military, on the other hand, Wolff beautifully zeroes in on the minutiae of life—and as a result...