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Should Hong Kong aspire to be the Monte Carlo of China? The question may seem absurd. For a start, Hong Kong is a commercial city of nearly 7 million people; Monte Carlo a town of just 16,000. Yet Monte Carlo is a metaphor for things that Hong Kong should...
To get into the pants and hearts of the audience, the movie uses as many ruses as the guys. Damned if most of them don't work. Wedding Crashers is a slick operation, and Vaughn and Wilson are a couple of three-card-monte dealers whose patter is so engaging...
(2 of 3) That stance has ensured Botero's continuing commercial success but earned him plenty of detractors, who accuse him of endlessly repeating a single well-honed gimmick. While Botero's work appears in museums around the world, he has drawn fire from some contemporary art curators. The Museum...
Some artistic incarnations can be dangerous to the incarnator. Eugene O'Neill's father James was a talented actor who played the Count of Monte Cristo so many times, and so lucratively, that he ruined himself for anything else. He became the part. The illusion that was his success (the...
Tobacco companies have not been standing by doing nothing as their stocks go down. Philip Morris, in buying General Foods, and R.J. Reynolds, in taking over Nabisco, have made dramatic moves that will change the structure of those companies. Philip Morris, which had earlier acquired Miller Brewing and Seven-Up...