Word: marshes
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...main character, Albert—played by the intense young actor Jason Schwartzman, best known for his debut role as Max Fischer in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore—is a fledgling activist trying to use poetry to help protect a local marsh. In the background looms the specter of consumerism in the form of Huckabees, a department store chain planning on wiping away Albert’s beloved wetlands...
SETTLED. A class action against RAY MARSH, operator of the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, where the uncremated remains of 334 people were found in storage buildings and surrounding forests in 2002; for $80 million; in Rome, Ga. Marsh, 31, faces an October trial on 787 criminal charges...
...elder two girls knew the show by heart. As the curtain rose slightly, revealing three dozen pairs of shapely legs and happy feet, Diana whispered to Mary, ?Julian Marsh is putting on a show!? - the play?s first line. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors? gestures. At intermission, Diana strode into the aisle and did an expert tap routine - no small accomplishment, considering that she was barefoot. The theatergoers applauded her as vigorously as Mary and I had at home. A star was born...
Even the stories that meander in their own cleverness until they are bogged down in Wallace's detail-obsessive word marsh are still breathtakingly smart, like a middling Stoppard play. Strange, then, is the self-doubt that creeps into most of the tales, often in the form of acknowledging potential criticisms before the reader even thinks of them. And Wallace frequently seems to wonder whether his or any art is just a foolish attempt at uniqueness in a world where we're all fundamentally the same. His final story in the collection, The Suffering Channel, is the slightly drawn...
...advertising dollars. The Tribune's RedEye (circ. 85,000), for example, has not turned a profit, but it has attracted 350 new advertisers to the Trib. Plus, since newspaper companies use existing assets like printing plants, journalists and distribution networks, the cost of added operations is incremental, says James Marsh, an analyst at SG Cowen Securities. Most of the free papers are break-even propositions...