Word: manias
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...Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film is based on ten conversations of a female driver (Mania Akbari) in Tehran with her passengers. These include her young and frustrated son Amin, a prostitute, a jilted bridge, a woman on her way to prayers and others. Having just ended a messy divorce and enduring criticism from her son, she acts as advice columnist for her problem-riddled passengers—whose drastically different lives are just glimpsed through the camera in the taxicab. Ten screens Wednesday, August...
...roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August 19 at 9:50 p.m. $6. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...recovery," says Vieille. "This should open the way." If the upturn in M and A activity continues, it'll be good news for beleaguered investment banks, who have laid off tens of thousands of their staff worldwide in recent years. But it's far less clear that merger mania is good for the companies themselves or their workers. The very consultants who touted mergers in the 1990s have since published studies about the outcome, and they make stark reading. One survey by consultants A.T. Kearney revealed that 58% of mergers failed to reach the value goals set by top managers...
...receive government approval. But Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov has already given his blessing, saying such nascent giants could act as drivers for the country's entire economy Misinformation Mania The fighting in Iraq may have subsided, but it seems companies have only just begun to exploit the commercial potential of Mohammed Saeed al - Sahhaf, the reality defying Iraqi Information Minister. Companies on at least three continents are already using a-Sahhaf in their marketing. The Northlands Park racecourse in Alberta, Canada, recently ran an ad suggesting the Information Minister would make a good race commentator since "a little inaccuracy [makes...
With the Recycle Mania contest behind them, Gould said REP is preparing for a display this Sunday at Springfest, when Harvard environmental groups will commemorate Earth...