Word: epicent
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...Jones adds to this familiar elements from many a space epic or action movie. Sam might be the cop who is just days from a well-earned retirement, and who is bound to get bumped off so the hero can avenge him. There's also the ticking-clock mechanism of an expedition that's coming to fetch Sam, and the private multinational corporation, Sam's employer, that simply must have nefarious motives. Yet the movie isn't interested in suspense tricks or conspiracy theories so much as in investigating Sam's mind/body problem: he has a surplus of the latter...
...debt the typical household carries as a percentage of its disposable income. The ratio of debt to income increased from about 35% in the early 1950s to about 65% by the mid-1960s, where it more or less stayed until the late 1980s. That's when debt started its epic rise, hitting 100% of income in 2001 and going all the way up to 133% in 2007. (Read "Five Reasons for Economic Optimism...
...Needs Snow... Colorado's Vail Resorts isn't just a skiing destination. To convince you, the resort has devised all-inclusive family friendly three- and six-night vacations jam-packed with Western activities. The Epic Summer package takes you panning for gold, whitewater rafting, horseback riding on Beaver Creek Mountain, and on gondolas rides to summits and historical walking tours through the old Victorian mining town of Breckenridge. There's even a Wild West cowboy campfire dinner, complete with wagon rides and storytelling. The six-night package costs $1,195 for adults, or $895 for children ages 12 and under...
...fellow "migraineurs," as he calls them, include Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin and Elvis Presley. Reading about their epic suffering, you wonder how they ever got anything done at all. But Levy raises the tantalizing possibility that their genius arose in part because of their migraines rather than in spite of them. He entertains the idea that migraines "make the clear moments that much clearer, the dark moments that much more unreachable." There is a quasi-Buddhist discipline to enduring them, and they leave in their wake a mind worn smooth and bright by their...
...Looking back over your resumé, with films like City of Angels, which was a remake of Wim Wenders' epic Wings of Desire, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the popular book series, you seem confident in taking popular material and reworking it. The only movies I've made that have had that kind of source material are the ones that motivated me to get off my ass and make them, because I thought there was yet another interesting point of view to the material. I think my friend Elvis Mitchell put it really well...