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...play a fuller emotional range than the stiffish likes of Lana Turner and Rock Hudson. Quaid makes a decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace. As a result, Far from Heaven ironizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us. It's the Sirk movie--fully alert to all his shadowy implications--that Sirk may or may not have intended but never actually made...
...whose company just announced a record €1.4 billion third-quarter net loss, John Mack, incoming co-CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, sounds mighty confident. Despite the red ink, the affable American, whose manner belies his nickname of "Mack the Knife," is buoyant. "I'm an optimist," he told Time. Given Credit Suisse's recent track record, Mack could be accused of wishful thinking. Consider how the 146-year-old bank - Switzerland's second-largest, with operations globally - has seen its key divisions gouged by hostile market conditions. In the third quarter Winterthur, Credit Suisse's insurance arm, punched...
...made the mistake of reading "Blood Song" before noticing the sub-title, "A Silent Ballad." That is, I read it like a graphic novel, with a novel-reader's interest in character and story. In this manner I consumed this epic work within fifteen minutes and felt gypped. Seemingly naive and simplistic, the story tells of a young woman living peacefully with her family in what looks like Vietnam. One day soldiers arrive (conspicuously similar to American G.I.s) and destroy the village. She flees through the jungle and across the sea. She arrives at a modern city with dark, bedraggled...
...what about the teachers who are, after all, the lifeblood of any institution of learning? This is one area where the nearness between Harvard and Yale is particularly apparent. For instance, although it is very difficult to quantify in any objective manner how “good” or “distinguished” a school’s faculty is, one very telling measure is how many of its members are in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, arguably America’s most distinguished learned society...
...Well, let's face the problems when we come to them. (Laughs). Can't you invent an even more difficult case? (Laughs)... We will (perform all our inspections) in a professional manner, that will try to avoid any insults or any humiliations...