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...studios' preferred plots reflect their means of creation. Pixar writer-directors, working in a San Francisco suburb far from the seat of industry power, get lots of staff support but pursue their visions more or less on their own. DreamWorks movies, made mostly in the Hollywood suburb of Glendale, are team efforts. A Pixar film may have one writer besides the director; it's total auteur handicraft. Most DreamWorks movies credit two directors and several writers, and play like the spiffiest vaudeville. The DreamWorkers aren't in the masterpiece business; they just want to provide an expert good time...
...they don't binge very often. Like other deprivation bloggers, they say their project made them realize they need far less than what they were accustomed to consuming...
Like many bloggers who have embarked on a deprivation experiment, she says trying to adhere to the Compact has made her realize "how mindlessly I'm capable of buying stuff." One month into the experiment, she walked out of a store with a shiny new can opener, only later realizing she'd broken...
...made me feel that I counted. But there was no way, surveying my household, that I could choose who would be Person 2 - unless, of course, the number two somehow could change its properties...
...nothing has driven China's growth more than real estate investment. Last year, fixed-asset investment accounted for more than 90% of China's overall growth, and residential and commercial real estate investment made up nearly a quarter of that. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...