Word: grossness
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...Finally, there's the man above the title. A genuine star who makes hit movies, Hanks has headlined 14 films with a domestic gross of more than $100 million - more than Will Smith (12) and Julia Roberts and Adam Sandler (10 each); only Tom Cruise can match that haul. But Hanks' films usually don't open with a big bang; audiences discover them over time, and by the end, he has a Forrest Gump. At 52, Hanks is not the ideal age for a teen kid's movie icon; his one starring role since Da Vinci, in Charlie Wilson...
...finally, the Palme d'Or) in 2000 - von Trier presents his eighth film in the competition. Antichrist is both his most familiar film - a horror film of a soul gone mad, as in Psycho and The Shining - and one of his most transgressive, which is reviewer's jargon for gross-out gruesome...
...Steven Trunnell wants to fight. He says that, contrary to early media reports, his wife Judy had no underlying medical complications and was healthy before she contracted H1N1. "She accomplished so many goals, and she was the mother to a 4-year-old," he says. "It was a gross injustice." Viruses, however, have no sense of justice - and no court in the world will be able to change that...
...turn in the economy is necessarily nonsense. It's just an indication that consumer spending, typically a driver of economic upturns, may well be a drag this time. Personal-consumption expenditures as measured by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis had grown to more than 70% of gross domestic product (GDP) in recent years, well above the 1950s-1990s average of 64%. This was an artifact of the consumer and mortgage credit boom of the 2000s, and economists ranging from Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach to White House economic czar Larry Summers had been proclaiming for several years...
...result, the best-case scenario for an economic recovery is one in which the consumer's share of economic activity shrinks, but gains in other sectors are enough to keep the economy growing at least modestly. In GDP lingo, those other sectors are government-consumption expenditures, gross private domestic investment (business plus housing) and net exports. Let's run through them...