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...music industry, Griffith says, folk is a four-letter word. This beautiful 19-song set proves that traditional music, as embodied in the folk revival of the '50s and '60s, is a potent language that still speaks eloquently. Inviting singer-songwriters of that mighty time (Carolyn Hester, Dave Van Ronk) to swap harmony with their current avatars (Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams), Griffith is host to an all-star sing-out: great versions of He Was a Friend of Mine and Wasn't That a Mighty Storm. For the young, this package will offer not memories but revelations, if they...
...idea. They can smell his desperation. It invites their casual contempt. When a movie star (Melanie Griffith) grants him a sexual favor, it's one of those once-in-a-lifetime benisons queens sometimes bestow on a lucky serf, not the beginning of a relationship. When a supermodel (Charlize Theron) catches a glimpse of his only glamorous asset, a classic Aston Martin sports car, she thinks its owner may do as an escort for a night on the town, but her attention keeps wandering...
...Griffith makes the sealant rubber that Daimler-Benz, Volvo, Mack Trucks and other truckmakers use around windshields and under hoods. Laney sees a domino effect: if U.S. companies can't ship their products to Asia, Brazil, Russia or other places in economic turmoil, they won't need trucks to get their products to port. That's why Laney is scaling back, even though orders for new trucks increased in 1998. "We're not spending money on new equipment," he says. And after two years in which Griffith built two new plants and invested some $3.5 million in new manufacturing capacity...
Elsewhere in the country, companies are following the same general pattern. At Griffith Rubber Mills in Portland, Ore., president Scot Laney can read the immediate future of his company written in empty shipping containers. He watches cargo ships steam into the harbor laden with products from Asia. These containers would normally return to Asia full of American products. But now those goods are too expensive in Asia, so the containers stack up on the dock, harbingers of a recession. "It hasn't got to our level yet," says Laney. "But it will. We know it's coming...
...sunglasses, unflinching when an entire building blows up behind him, Woods brings the necessary mix of swagger, cool bravado, fearlessness and tightly-coiled anger to the role of Jack Crow. It's a good thing, too, since the supporting cast does not add much. Thomas Ian Griffith makes for a striking, if rather dull, villain, leering savagely but saying little of interest. Daniel Baldwin has a solid rapport with Woods and brings a rugged toughness to Montoya, but he can't shake his comical "Baldwin brother" reputation (he's the portly one) and brings utterly no credence to his silly...