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...Mystery Science Theater 3000 Cable's first and coolest nerd-genius hit, MST3K elevated a derisory premise?a guy and two robots riff on cheesy movies?into glorious comic art. This 20th anniversary edition contains four episodes (the best: Werewolf) and enough goofy extras to make any MSTie mist...
...living proof that hope hasn't vanished. You need that comfort when you're standing on a rocky hilltop in Greenland, watching the ice disappear. As Jakobshavn gives way to the fjord, a stadium-size iceberg suddenly implodes, disintegrating like a collapsing skyscraper. I watch as a plume of mist fills the air where the iceberg once was, while the fjord churns on. And then I wonder, Just how much time do Greenland and the rest of us have before it's too late? That may be up to us--and the heroes we choose to follow...
...just as William is happy with his new job, it surely won't be disappointing for his legion of female fans to imagine a handsome prince charging through the mist, rescuing someone in distress...
...Pulitzer in 1982, and Gilead, which won it in 2005, almost a quarter-century later. When Robinson writes--as she does in her new novel, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 325 pages)--that the white hair of a sleeping old man is "like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming," her similes are so precise and so beautiful that one knows one should not be bored. In her essays, Robinson is a ferocious advocate of the life of the mind and the spirit, and one suspects that if one possessed the virtues she celebrates...
...distribution deals with Coke and Pepsi bottlers, which Goldman Sachs analyst Judy Hong describes as a "potential Achilles' heel." According to Hong, "there is an inherent conflict of interest because Pepper's distribution platforms are also its largest competitors'," and as an example, she cites Pepsi's Sierra Mist displacing 7Up as the No. 2 lemon-lime brand, behind Sprite, in part because Pepsi Bottling stopped distributing...