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...office space; commercial real estate firm Atisreal says banking and finance firms are currently taking just 110,000 sq ft (10,200 sq m) of City space in a three-month quarter. Throughout 2005 and 2006, the take-up rate averaged more than four times the current level. The flatter demand will drive down rents in the City by 16% this year, Atisreal estimates, and a further...
Will Ferrell, plus 70s sport shorts, plus an Afro, equals disaster: “Semi-Pro” falls flatter than a deflated basketball. In fact, on exiting the theatre, I was not sure if the title “Semi-Pro” referred to the amateur basketball team that Ferrell leads or the movie as a whole. It accurately describes both. “Semi-Pro” charts the fortunes of the Flint Tropics, the worst team in the American Basketball Association (ABA). Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, the player/coach/owner of the Tropics and former singer...
...Because That Other Guy Is a Moron. Lists are a way of asserting authority. But they're also an invitation to challenge authority. Do people really enjoy reading a list they totally agree with? No! Good lists engage readers, enrage them and flatter their ability to think of better examples. A list isn't truly right unless it's a little bit wrong...
Even the characters have no personal histories. It’s as though they’ve been steamrolled by director David Slade and have come out flatter than the cartoons from the original comic book story on which the movie is ever-so-loosely based. But there’s no point in wasting screen time developing characters’ personalities or backgrounds—they’re all going to die before you can get attached to them anyway...
King, an art historian and the author of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, portrays a Machiavelli who lived by more than cunning and reason. He consulted astrologers and believed that the heavens influenced political events. Although he championed dissimulation, he was incapable of it: he refused to flatter fools and regularly mouthed off to superiors. He understood suffering, once urging his son to release a mule from its halter so that it might "regain its own way of life." And he inspired not fear, but affection. During his long trips abroad, friends wrote him letters professing that they were...