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...into the water off a beach and proceeds to divest herself of her blouse (her back turned coyly to the camera), all to dramatize her disdain for the trappings of wealth. It's a critique of materialism that wouldn't have half as much impact if it were, say, Friedrich Engels half-naked in the surf...
...nice, creepy situation, derived from a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt and visualized by the director, Sean Penn. But the screenwriters, Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski, permit Jerry his ordinariness. He really loves Lori. And he is a marvelous surrogate father to her child. It is possible to imagine his pledge, his obsession, being drowned in domesticity. If only those suspicious cars didn't keep pulling up to his pumps...
...deals worth $3.84 billion last year, up from three deals worth $224.3 million in 1998. Significant transactions include KKR's $940.5 million acquisition of British conglomerate Wassall, whose primary holding is Thorn Lighting, a manufacturer of light fixtures; and the $1.4 billion buyout of the German bathroom-fixtures maker Friedrich Grohe, led by BC Partners...
Around the turn of the last century, Friedrich Nietzsche killed God and replaced him with the Ubermensch, or superman. In the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon; 380 pages; $27.50), Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware goes Nietzsche one better. He replaces God with Superman, the caped hero, who becomes a God/father metaphor to the emotionally crippled title character. Then Ware kills Superman too--or at least a man in a Superman suit, who, in a single bound, leaps to his death from a tall building in a scene, witnessed by Jimmy, that sets the tale's poignant...
...Friday's issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, which shows for the first time that a new type of rehabilitation may help stroke victims regain nearly full use of their paralyzed limbs. The experimental therapy, employed by researchers at the University of Alabama and the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany, involves immobilizing the good arm of a stroke victim and forcing the patient to use their "bad" arm to perform daily tasks. Patients performed the exercises six hours a day for two weeks...