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...Which could be why I liked it. To place a sensitive story in a male-epic genre - to dramatize feelings of angst and personal betrayal worthy of an Ingmar Bergman film, and then to dress them up in gaudy comic-book colors - is to pull off a smartly subversive drag show. With, yes, 25 mins. of fabulous fights. Peter's tussle with Sandman, and his aerial battle with the supersonic skateboarding New Goblin, are plenty snazzy. But anyone can do that; in action movies, everyone has done that. What's better, in a threequel, is rethinking the characters, the franchise...
...Worth it? Not as much as it used to be, after Zack Snyder's 300 gave audiences the feeling of an epic using blue-screen technology on a soundstage...
...victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn. That's probably overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the bank's staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted...
...decision to walk, Siemens' stock tanked. But Kleinfeld's has risen. He was hoping that three to five years down the road, people would look back and say Siemens had a problem but used it as an opportunity to become totally transparent and remodel the company for the epic infrastructure build-out that is unfolding around the world. It may still happen, but Kleinfeld's view of his handiwork will probably be that of a spectator...
...says Antonia W.H. Fraker ’09, who manages the Radcliffe Choral Society. “We’re being sort of advertised as the crescendo of the Arts First thing, which is part of the reason why we’re doing something so grand and epic as the Mahler.” At over 90 minutes in length, “Symphony No. 2” is an ambitious undertaking. “This is a work that is unprecedented in its scale,” says senior Glee Club President Matthew E. Growdon...