Word: moribundity
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Steven Spielberg takes a breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman?...
...Finance Ministry lost patience and called an auction. France's biggest bank, BNP Paribas, gobbled up the stake for €58 per share. Agricole realized it goofed, replaced its chairman and bid €56 per share in cash and stock for the whole bank, valuing once-moribund Crédit Lyonnais at €19.5 billion. Laurent remains CEO - for the moment - but the man to watch is new chairman René Carron, who's also a dairy farmer. "We went a bit higher but not that much higher" as a result of the blunder, he said sheepishly...
...clear cool silence, everything I saw seemed charged with profound meaning; the wasps that, drowsy in the chill, buzzed through the fretted door of a crypt nauseated me. We are, I thought, the wasps and I, the only quick creatures in all these acres of graves, and they are moribund. The dying wasps were too obvious a reflection on mortality, as obscene as the contorted bodies in a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. I didn’t turn back; instead, frightened into solemnity, I walked on with the self-conscious gravity of a miscast Christmas pageant Madonna. And after...
...hail Def Jux, saviors of American hip hop. Not only have they produced a brace of rappers outrageously talented enough to redeem a near-moribund genre—in RJD2, they have proved that they don’t even need a rapper to do it. The beats and cuts on RJD2’s debut solo album, Deadringer, are as fresh as they come, neither burdened with artistic pretension nor simply catering to the dance floor...
Person of the Week Hong Kong's unpopular Chief Executive TUNG CHEE-HWA bet the farm-and about $2.9 billion-that building a Disney theme park would revive his city's moribund economy. But news that Disney may be planning another park in the former colony's archrival Shanghai has Hong Kongers feeling that Scrooge McDuck has picked their pocket...