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...boil comes to a head, it is a head. It has eyes, nose and a foul, funnily flapping mouth -- Bagley's id made manifest and shouting down his superego like some corporate raider ragging management at a stockholders meeting. Goodbye, Ealing Studios. Hello, Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss and medical science...
...ordinary citizen, a big jump in the unemployment rate seems like bad news. What could possibly be good about the fact that almost 400,000 more people were out of work in April than in the preceding month? After all, that painful increase hurts not only those without jobs and their families, but the malls and supermarkets where they shop as well. Yet when the Government reported that joblessness rose by 0.3% to 5.3% in April, financial insiders ( applauded, the bond market surged while stocks staged a brief but sharp rally, and publications ranging from USA Today to investment-house...
...leap in the number of unsuccessful job seekers, the experts cheered it as a sign of a slowdown that lessens the chance of a new burst of inflation. "No matter how bad the news," observes Pierre Rinfret, a Manhattan-based economic consultant, "the market will find something good in it." Just as the market, which seems to obey none of the usual rules, almost always manages to find something bad in the very best of news...
...political work, I probably committed errors," wrote Kadar in a letter to the party's Central Committee after his removal. "But all my actions were dictated by good intentions...
...snooty appeal of the French Appellation Controllee, the Italian Denominazione di Origine Controllata is meant not only to guarantee origin and authenticity of a product but also to imply that a particular brand is, well, better than other brands. But Italy may be producing too much of a good thing. Originally intended as a guide to superior wines, the DOC stamp of approval now appears on Parmesan cheese, prosciutto crudo, balsamic vinegar and chestnuts, all frequent fare on Italian tables. Among the other items that may soon bear the DOC label: handcrafted ceramics, Neapolitan pasta and pizza...