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...persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself gets caught up in lies...
...order to save "family values." A frightening internal poll quoted in the story says that of 1,000 primary voters, a staggering 70 percent thought this statement was correct: "Dan Quayle has proven he can take a punch; the media made fun of him and he is still standing firm for what he believes." That evil media! Not only has Dan proven he can take a punch, he's proven that he can hit himself...
...just hedging their bets? While the Internet offers a place for candidates to get issues out more comprehensively than the standard media sound bite does, it is hard to imagine that e-precincts are the same as real precincts, or that a picture of a candidate can replace a firm handshake...
...items, including a signed copy of Hem-ingway's A Farewell to Arms--Amazon will, of course, be strong in rare books. "Our vision is to build a place to find and discover anything our customers might want to buy...[including] car parts and spark plugs," says Bezos, whose firm's ever inflating stock price jumped an additional 15% on the news. Says Larry Schwartz, president of rival Auction Universe: "It's kind of frightening--they cloned eBay...
...really blame them? Each month, some 6 million visitors flock to eBay's sprawling virtual tag sale, according to research firm Media Metrix, right behind Amazon's 8 million. A third of those browsers regularly bid on or sell a selection of nearly 2 million items, including computers, Ginsu knives, baseball cards and model trains, generating about $300 million in total transactions during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each...