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...recent publishing history, this is quite a relief. In March 2000, as stock prices soared to record levels, Shiller released his first general-audience book. Titled Irrational Exuberance, a phrase borrowed from a 1996 Alan Greenspan speech, it made the case that stock-market investors tend to go mad every few years--and that they were at the time in the grips of perhaps their worst psychotic episode ever...
...Toronto Film Festival later this week - they take George Clooney and Brad Pitt, those modern icons of sex and savoir-faire, drop them in the world of Washington, D.C., espionage, then keep ratcheting down their emotional IQs. They turn Frances McDormand (Mrs. Joel Coen off-screen) into a mad-man loser with a severe self-image problem. The characters' lives get more desperate as the camera style retains its affectless sheen...
...mad rush for the extra rooms has quietly begun with email addresses being passed among journalists, activists and anyone else with a connection to the California delegation. They should be gone by morning...
...From this brisk synopsis, you can tell that Death Race 2000 is far richer than the remake. Both have an attitude; the first one has a vision. George Miller testified that the Bartel film inspired his Mad Max movies: the post-apocalyptic landscape, the valuing of speed over life, the fender-level shots of cars careering toward Armageddon. It also spawned a rip-off video game, called Death Race, supposedly the first of its kind to be banned. Death Race 2000 didn,t slam into any legal walls, but it has a lunatic daring that was a hallmark...
...wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears. "I want somebody ... who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than they are right now," he said. "I want somebody who is mad right now that people are losing their jobs." And I immediately thought...