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...name of the game is irony and near-misses, as Murray steps into a traditional Russian dance at a diplomatic function, tossing about explosive nesting dolls, and flailing about to the music in true Murray style, much to the delight of the audience in the film, and in the theater...
...Harvard knowingly sanctioned a purchase of a stock whose sole profit making function is pornography, we certainly don't agree with that," said Melissa J. Gambol '99, treasurer of RUS and a spokesperson for the RUS board...
...upside. Guys who passed on buying Citicorp at 105, and then 110, and then 115, and then 120, and then 125, reach for $128 stock. I personally moved Telebras 10 points in a futile attempt to buy 25,000 shares. At the bottom the screens simply failed to function, and nobody really knew where anything was, but we all knew that something had changed, something for the better, and it felt as lasting as you can get in this nanosecond trading world. I was able to scoop up some Dell Computer at 79 at 10 a.m. and flip...
...causes a good deal of tension, there is an overarching spirit of generosity: at no time are they all reduced to despair. The eight members of this group form a loose extended family, and the most touching scenes are those that show how this family finds a way to function in the most terrible of situations. Although Anne claims to resent her mother and occasionally complains about the others as well, she sees some good in all of them. Even as she skips restlessly around the annex, provoking--as children often do--both laughter and irritation, she reveals an unusually...
...very first scene, for instance, introduces us to the famous three witches of Macbeth--who in Umabatha have become Sangomas, or Zulu diviner-women. rattling bones across the ground to tell the future and chanting maniacal melodies as they dance around their fire, the three Sangomas retain their function as eerie, ambiguous messengers of the world beyond, even as they are transformed into traditional icons of Zulu myth...