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...audience how to perceive Buck, because it’s hard to see any of this purported “timeless charm” in Buck’s shows. From his coin drop trick to his famous illusion in which he finds money that the audience has hidden, his performances are not particularly exciting. It is difficult to muster the same desire to learn the secrets of his tricks that his audiences in the film seem to have. Buck is supposed to be a symbol of small-town America; he may not be glamorous and he has lost...
...productions of 1999 by Time, but the exasperatingly clichéd film will not receive any such honor.The plot centers on a series of racist threats received by a black student at the predominantly white Belmont College in Vermont. The ensuing uproar at the small liberal arts school reveals hidden prejudices, brings tension bubbling to the surface, and leads to violence. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Sarah Daniels, the newly hired Dean of Students who strives for sensitivity yet needs to keep her job. Dean Daniels struggles to find a balance between protecting the targeted student and appeasing the administration...
...second wife. Maude aggrandizes herself as the erstwhile “Belle of Memphis,” and by the time she meets Wright, her self-obsession has collapsed into pure solipsism, not without the help of a casual morphine addiction. “Yes, she’d hidden her kit from Frank as much as possible and from Leora too, not that she was ashamed or in danger of becoming a morphinomane or anything of that nature, but because her medicines were a private affair and no one else’s…” Boyle...
...synergies" which involve things like taking the R&D geniuses from the acquiring company and putting them in the same room with their counterparts from the firm being acquired. Working together may set off the creative sparks that drive new discoveries. Or, they may not. The real but hidden definition of the word "synergy" is firing lots of people. The recently closed marriage between Dow Chemical (DOW) and Rohm and Haas (ROH) was about firing people. Pfizer (PFE) bought drug company Wyeth (WYE) for the same reason. Being in the pharmaceuticals business is not what it used to be. Blockbuster...
...dispatched two envoys, including Shin Bet security services chief Yuval Diskin, to Cairo for indirect talks with Hamas, which may be hung up on details of an exchange. Those talks were extended until Monday night, raising the expectation that Hamas might agree to free the captive soldier, who is hidden somewhere in Gaza. "It's been very tough," Noam Shalit told TIME. "But we can't give up. I have no alternative but to be here, in this tent." But as of Tuesday morning, the envoys had returned from the Cairo talks without a deal on Shalit's release. Diskin...