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...crowd. That should be helped by an enthusiastic A- rating from the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers and by a sheaf of favorable reviews. One dissenter in the critical community, Manohla Dargis of the New York Times, wrote that "the piles of bodies at the end did make me flash on the Nazi extermination camps, which, you know, really killed the joke, too." What do you bet that somebody in Hollywood scanned the Dargis review and got the bright idea of casting Breslin in a remake of The Reader for tweens...
...After slipping into the building, officials said the attacker detonated his explosive in the lobby just after noon, when about 100 staff members were at work. "There was a loud blast, a flash of light and the windows shattered," Dominique Frankefourt, the WFP's deputy country director, told TIME. "I was on the first floor of the two-story building. I told everyone to get out as quickly as possible. But when I came down to the ground floor, there were people lying on the floor who could not move." Four of those killed were Pakistani; the fifth victim...
...that the economy has unfurled and people are realizing that prices don't always go up, houses are getting smaller - and more practical. Instead of feeding the desire for flash, architects and homebuilders are responding to how families actually spend time and use space, as well as to new buyers entering the market. "A house is back to being a house," says Stephen Moore, a senior partner of the architecture and planning firm BSB Design in Des Moines, Iowa. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...similar idea worked well to stimulate competition in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The idea has found a receptive ear at the Obama White House, where officials believe it could be a way to bridge the ideological divide that has made the public option for the least insured a flash point for some of the loudest arguments over health reform...
Ford, the Austin, Texas, fashion designer who for a decade was the creative director at Gucci, financed his first feature himself. The director turned out to be a good investment for the producer. Nuance, not flash, is his forte. Playing to Firth's subtleties, he photographs the actor's handsome, mourning face in caressing close-up. (In his professor glasses, Firth looks like a young, more studious Michael Caine.) Ford is also attentive to the varieties of Southern California sunlight, which lends A Single Man an orangey warmth that should touch all who see the picture. But it's Firth...