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...received a surprising dearth of critical attention. It has only been in the last few years that critics have begun to exhume many of his films and give him credit for his important contributions to the history of cinema. With his foreboding and apocalyptic vision of modernity, his keen awareness of the effects of technology and his firm belief in the importance of the human struggle against outside forces, Lang is a particularly apposite director for us to be studying in this day and age. It is time that his reputation be elevated to the height it deserves...
Although she hasn’t explained where she was on Sept. 10, America’s most famous dubiously Caribbean-accented clairvoyant still claims a keen ability to see the future. Through tarot cards and grammatically incorrect sentences, Miss Cleo offers her followers “a more informed future” regarding everything from romance to personal health. On her popular infomercial—filmed at an Atlanta radio station—Miss Cleo stuns viewers with cosmic insights into the lives of “random” callers. Among her incredible predictions: that a caller takes...
...poor farming family's dreams: $2,000 now and more to follow when Pim sent money home from Thailand. Her mother told her she would be working as a mae bai, a maid. Pim, who had no reason to doubt her, found herself being packed off. The trader, keen to make a trip so far up-country pay, had hired a minivan: Pim describes how her first day in captivity was spent driving from village to village as the man picked up a total of 12 girls. Bribing his way past the many Burmese road checkpoints and buying forged visitor...
...ingredients of a made-for-TV drama. The star is an aging German tycoon, known for his obsessive secrecy, unbridled ambition and friends in high places - one of whom even has a shot at becoming Chancellor. Using a keen understanding of the public taste and an enormous appetite for risk taking, our hero builds a multibillion-dollar media empire, comprising TV stations, newspapers and rights to a library of cinema classics and sports events...
...Other European leagues aren't as keen as England on French coaches, but the Gallic touch is finding takers farther afield. Claude Le Roy, who coached Cameroon's 1998 World Cup side, has signed on at Shanghai's Cosco, while Manuel Amoros, who collected 82 caps with les Bleus, has taken the helm at the Tunisian club Sfax. If the foursome at the World Cup draw good performances from their teams, the football factory may find orders for its by-products mirroring the demand for its main export...