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...Burr's $305 million purchase last November of Denver-based Frontier Airlines. Frontier, a conventionally priced, full-service carrier, was already battered at its hub by competition from Texas Air subsidiary Continental and from United. Burr's Denver foray violated one of the initial ingredients in People's formula for success: offer no-frills travel in areas away from heavy competition. Says Burr in retrospect: "When we bought Frontier, our competitors decided Denver was going to be a battleground. It still...
...nations, after all, share similar frustrations. But they don't respond the way we do. We Americans favor and justify retaliation because we see things in terms of the good-guys and the bad-guys. And, not surprisingly, the U.S. is almost always the good-guys in this neat formula...
...today's behavioral standards, the Continental Op is a head case. But his blunt vernacular helped to establish the voice that influenced generations of American writers. Like that other homegrown art form, jazz, the hard-boiled style relied on a formula but encouraged improvisation. James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) counterpointed violence with steamy sexuality; Chandler's signature note of sarcastic charm can be heard in the opening of his 1936 story Goldfish: "I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling." Currently, Parker's Spenser sings the best sassy blues: "Ideal...
...formula sounds simple enough. But there is a hidden subtlety in it, which lies in the business of motivation. It is sufficient unto the length of an eight-minute animated short subject that Wile E. Coyote have an inexplicable obsession with capturing a pestiferous bird. If, on the other hand, we were asked to spend an hour and a half in the company of this immortal pair of mortal enemies, we would require some word beyond the occasional "beep- beep...
Lady Jane, her first film, is no formula flick, but an ambitious costume melodrama about the violent period after the deaths of Henry VIII (in 1547) and, six years later, his sickly young son Edward VI. Nevertheless--castles, moats, 16th century costumes and all--the film sinks at its worst moments to the level of teenage fantasy. Bonham Carter, small and dark haired, with huge brown eyes and a face that suggests a miniature in an antique locket, plays the doomed Lady Jane Grey, who lost her life at 16 in an attempt to prevent Henry's Catholic daughter Mary...