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...open, is not a compelling one. Shopkeeping cannot compare to moviemaking and murder (The Player's topics) in dramatic interest. Peter and Katherine don't even bicker entertainingly as their marriage collapses; they just drawl withdrawal. The languid self-satisfaction of The New Age, the sense that its maker knows most people will hate it and doesn't care because he's issuing "a personal statement," is its most annoying quality. Don't be suckered. Your first instinct is right. It's a terrible movie...
...mythologies of many Native American tribes feature a character known to anthropologists as the trickster. He is both good and bad; a creator but also a mischief maker. Above all, he is duplicitous: joyously, energetically deceptive. Among the Tlingit people of western Alaska, the trickster figure is known as the Raven. At the moment, however, someone bearing a striking resemblance to him is roaming the Ketchikan area under another name...
...used the AARP name in their marketing. The AARP stressed that its payment did not imply any admission that it would owe taxes on such income in the future. Nevertheless, the settlement sent a chill through the non-profit world, where the AARP scheme is an oft-used money-maker...
...corporate marriages range across the breadth and depth of American business, from banking to pharmaceuticals to telecommunications. Defense? Try Northrop's $2.1 billion buyout in April of aircraft maker Grumman, which had also been sought by Martin Marietta. Retailing? Federated paid $4.1 billion for R.H. Macy last month in a merger that created America's largest department-store company. Wireless phones? U.S. West and AirTouch Communications agreed two weeks ago to pool their cellular operations into a business with total sales of $13.5 billion and nearly 2 million subscribers...
...United States will overtake Japan as the world's biggest auto maker this year, according to a Japanese financial newspaper. The last time the U.S. carried this mantle was back in 1980. But don't expect any whooping victory celebrations: Many cars made here are actually owned by Japanese companies like Honda and Toyota. They've built plants in the U.S. because it's cheaper than shipping the cars from Japan...