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...Anne; it seems just the tiniest bit compromising for a reporter to house the subject of his story, then bed the man's wife. But Cal, even on threat of being fired, can't renounce his new love. (The urgent voice of the viewer, by about the fourth hour: Dump her!) The movie has only Stephen visit Cal's place, and no affair with Anne. (See Richard Corliss's "Top 10 Jesus Films...
...jazz man in the world of ideas,” he says, sitting in the back seat of a car driving through New York City, his astounding breadth of knowledge and poetic name-dropping engaging, if not inspiring. Žižek stands in front of a garbage dump wearing a bright orange vest, excitedly ranting about ecology in a counter-intuitive way. “We must find poetry—spirituality—in this dimension,” he says. “To recreate, if not beauty, then aesthetic dimension in trash...
...James isn't technically a member of the entitled class - the Brennans' family home is modest - but he acts that way. As he whines his way through the early minutes of the movie, it seems what he needs is a character-developing stint at the dump. Like Zach Braff's character in Garden State, James is a visitor in his hometown, convinced that bigger is better (his goal, naturally, is to move to New York). But that's where the similarity ends. James is no morose hipster caught up in memories of the past. Nor is he Benjamin Braddock, lolling...
...move to dump the Zimbabwe dollar has also stemmed the country's runaway inflation. This week the government announced that prices were 0.8% lower in January after years of multidigit increases. The last official measure of inflation, in July last year, put it at 231 million percent. (See pictures of money being printed...
...Switzerland's one step further along. In an effort to fend off the threat of deflation, the Swiss National Bank announced March 12 it would dump francs in the first such move by a major central bank for years. The move was enough to cut 3% off the currency's value against the euro; since then, the franc's fallen further still. Even the greenback, which rallied in recent months, stands at its lowest level against the euro since early January following the Fed's announcement last week that it would spend some $1.2 trillion on government and mortgage bonds...