Word: morgans
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...addition to his duties at Corning. Houghton is a director of Dow Corning, Corp., Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. and Exxon Corp. He is also a trustee of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Metropolitan Museum...
They bicker and bond--a wise, weary detective (Morgan Freeman) in his last week before retirement and an eager kid (Brad Pitt) fresh from the country and ready to kick some big-city butt. Police partnerships don't come any lower concept than this. On the other hand, the serial killer they are pursuing, a creepy, brainy religious fanatic played by Kevin Spacey, is a high-concept kind of guy: he's trying to commit seven murders in seven days, each of them supposed to illustrate one of the seven deadly sins in some preposterously stomach-churning...
...story's beginning is formulaic. Disillusioned, jaded, semi-legendary homicide detective William Sommerset (Morgan Freeman) has one week (seven days) to go before retirement. During that week he is to break in his replacement, the young hot-shot, David Mills (Brad Pitt). There is tension between the two detectives, just as there is in every other movie that starts off with some variation of this basic theme, where the young, energetic super-cop is paired with the veteran who has lost his energy ("Lethal Weapon," "Report to the Commissioner," "Point Break" and many, many more...
...Morgan Freeman's virtuosity is no surprise. He has been cheated out of at least two Academy Awards (for "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Shawshank Redemption"), both times losing to sentimental favorites: actors playing physically or mentally disabled characters (Daniel Day-Lewis in "My Left Foot" and Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump"). He will hopefully be nominated again for "Seven," but with his luck someone will release "Rain Man II" at Christmas and again deny him his due. Freeman's Detective Sommerset does not just pay lip service to being burned-out. His spirit is so heavy we can almost...
...billion electric-power plant that Enron Corp. of Houston was building near Bombay. Enron, which broke ground in March and stands to lose $300 million if it abandons the venture, is seeking talks aimed at permitting work to resume. "This is typically Indian," says Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, which runs an Indian mutual fund. "For every three steps forward, they take two steps back...