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...Maybe laid-back Southern Californians don't like pregame shouting matches (imagine Bronx fans smiling at George Steinbrenner if he tinkered with the hallowed Yankee name). Or maybe the Angels faithful know that despite the garbled name, with Moreno they still have it good. In building Outdoor Systems, a small outfit based in Phoenix, Ariz., into the country's largest billboard-advertising company, which Infinity (now part of Viacom) swallowed for $8.3 billion in 1999, Moreno, 58, has been guided by a basic mantra: "When you take a risk, you're either thinking you're real smart...
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...should be very laid-back and relaxed,” Epstein said...
...play takes a turn for the serious, however, as Rizwan follows Mohammad Chip’s lead, leaving for Palestine to become a member of a resistance group, a move that doesn’t fit with what we know about the until now laid-back character. Meanwhile, Sahar encounters another guy (Aaron, played by Mike Dwan), and the romantic comedy continues. The powerful scenes in which she confronts the existence of fundamentalism— wrestling with whether wearing a headscarf is demeaning and the reasons for her anger at organized religion—co-exist uneasily with genuinely funny...
...Face to Face," an exhibition of 30 of these striking portraits, goes on display at London's Natural History Museum from May 28 to Sept. 18. Each over 6 ft. [1.8 m] tall, the photographs reveal a moving depth of personality in their subjects. Mollison's apes are laid-back, cheeky, happy and sly. But disconcertingly, many also appear profoundly depressed and fearful, and no wonder. They are orphans, rescued from poachers. One of the subjects, a young gorilla named Pumbu (pictured above right), saw her parents killed for bush meat. Another, a sad-eyed Indonesian orangutan called Bonny (shown...