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...Indiana Jones” and “Star Wars” franchises. Even as he outruns villains in “Firewall,” there are flashes of a new Ford—a flabby belly when a shirttail comes loose and grey hairs that imply a little more Centrum Silver than silver fox. Nonetheless, the slow-speaking actor assures The Crimson that he lives life with no regrets. He respects the actors who find success playing roles he declined. “If I have an opportunity to do something and I pass on it, it?...
...also has a greater variety of scenes than The Push Man, taking place alternately in the country or city, in modern times and in years past. The lovely opening story, "The Little Alley Watcher," sets the tone for the rest of the book. Drawn in a painterly palate of grey washes, it depicts a little girl alone on a countryside hill overlooking an empty hut. O builds the lonely and distressing atmosphere through quiet panels of hanging laundry, a dog pulling desperately on its chain and an ant hauling a dead butterfly across the ground. Eventually our anxiety...
...concerts in Baltimore, Boston and California, including with the San Francisco Symphony under Kurt Masur.Gutman says she enjoys performing before a young audience, making university appearances like the one at Harvard particularly important to her. “In Europe I [am] used to seeing ‘grey hair’ in the audience and this is really sad,” she writes. “Music gives so much to the young soul.”She also expresses hope for the cultural future of Russian youth. “In Moscow, I see more and more...
...decent, but not great, wage through thick and thin. You didn?t get rich; you didn?t get fired. But now even profitable companies shed long-time employees at the first whiff of trouble. ?Think like a free agent,? says John Challenger, who runs outplacement firm Challenger Grey & Christmas. ?You need to be able to dump your company before it dumps you.? When companies are hungry for talent, as many are today, you can drive your hardest bargain. Negotiate stock options and performance bonuses, or work on commission. Don?t be shy. After all, if your job may disappear...
...DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1999 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose vodka?with its frosted bottle, C?zanne-inspired label and $30-per-bottle price tag?and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego, California. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in the rambunctious U.S. college-student market and began importing the near-unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With the help of a cadre of pretty "Jagerettes," who poured free shots in bars, the brand soared in sales from some 500 cases...