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Judging from his best-selling work, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Fisher can express himself well on paper. In fact, relaxing in his Pound Hall office, Fisher's eyes glow when he opens a text that includes one of his essays as an example of clear prose...
...want me to inhale asbestos fumes until I glow Press...
...impoverished the Snow Belt and enriched the Sunbelt. With this summer's oil shock, those feelings could come flooding back. The Northeast is already in a recession, suffering from such maladies as plummeting real estate prices and rising unemployment. The Southwest, by contrast, is beginning to bask in the glow of resurgent economic health. Rising oil prices, coupled with a possible shift in wealth because of the savings and loan bailout, may only serve to aggravate the differences between North and South...
...burnished glow of the cinematography imparts a portentous, not to say pretentious, air to the halls of justice where much of the film's most significant action occurs. The scruffy atmosphere of the book, the sense of lively, crooked, occasionally desperate human scurryings along marbled halls that have not been cleaned in years, and are probably lined by spittoons, is lost in the film's elegant shadows...
...fizzles out, as Gremlins 2 pretends to and ultimately does. At the climax, when other movies are accelerating, a dyna- movie must slow down in a vain search for emotional heft. By the end, viewers may be exhausted from information overload. Instead of leaving the theater with a rosy glow or warm tears, dyna-moviegoers feel like a James Bond vodka martini. They have been shaken but not stirred...