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Blockbuster caused a flutter when it announced a billion-dollar bid last month to buy rival Hollywood Entertainment, and rental chain Movie Gallery Inc. followed up with a bid of its own. What was puzzling, however, was the rationale that inspired Blockbuster's proposal. Online subscription services like Netflix, along with DVD sales and video-on-demand services, have eaten into the company's income. Its rental revenues have declined each quarter this year compared with last. Blockbuster has responded by investing in video-game rentals and launching its own online subscription service. It's "surprising that Blockbuster would choose...
...Mazda sedan and ordered us to leave. We were lucky. The fighters included Iraqis, Syrians and Jordanians. They were members of Attawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War), a militant group loyal to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. The group's black flags flutter from the palm trees and buildings along the Baghdad boulevard where we were stopped, an area known as Haifa Street. It's a no-go zone for U.S. forces...
...never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock, the roar of the rapids lost behind us. Extraordinarily sharp reflections look etched on the surface of the cold water, which is thought to plunge 20 m in places. Clouds of bugs flutter on its surface, and delicate mosses hang from crevices. Beyond it the river wanders into a large pool, where we camp above a gravelly beach, resting in exhausted contentment on large boulders while Pat conjures a stir fry out of the food barrels. After dinner some of us take...
...Geographic, those places that it takes three days on foot and canoe and yak to reach. Set on cliffs amid flowing streams and crashing waterfalls, the house at Tomahna is made up of circular pavilions linked by outdoor walkways that pass over sun-dappled water. Birds, butterflies and dragonflies flutter about...
...Rome, has the tone of bland chaos: much movement, no energy. The wacky visuals suggest that the film's editor was asked to spank this baby back to life; thus there are segments in split screen, multiscreen and, for a brief John Woo tribute, slow motion as doves flutter around a thug. In addition to cameos by Drew Pinsky (MTV's Dr. Drew) and Bob Saget (the girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea Martin as a Senator...