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Nonetheless, investors won't see a payoff for years. Sony will probably lose $1.7 billion selling PS3s in its 2007 fiscal year. Analysts for the Yankee Group estimate Sony spends $700 to $800 to make each PS3, creating a loss on every sale. The games division won't return to profitability until several million units have been sold, as component prices fall and revenues from higher-margin software kick in. Said Stringer: Sony will "have to generate some excitement and profits from elsewhere in the company...
Shee lacks the energetic style he displays so well in “Never Gonna Dance” at the beginning and end of Tharp’s piece. Yet at the climax of “Sinatra Suite,” that energy resurfaces with a significant payoff. The piece becomes much more physical, and the two dancers practically force each other around the stage; eventually, though, physicality becomes sensuality, and Shee and Moore come to a beautifully poised equilibrium...
What this group of filmmakers shared was a desire to take Nativity beyond the Godsploitation genre, the extended Sunday-school lessons into which many independent Christian films devolve and in which the laughable acting and dialogue and the anticipation of a big payoff at the end feel closer to shtick than art. FoxFaith's first theatrical release, Love's Abiding Joy, a western based on a novel by the Christian writer Janette Oke, made only about $250,000 on 200 screens this fall, perhaps because it was a little like a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie--without the edge...
...market. The newest selling point: shorter recovery periods, fewer visible aftereffects and, in many cases, near immediate results. "The better the techniques, the more people want them," says New York City and Miami cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Frederic Brandt. The machines used by professionals are expensive, but for dermatologists the payoff is huge: cash up front and no insurance bureaucracy to engage. "If you're really good at what you do," says La Jolla dermatologist Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, "you've got the potential to charge a premium, which you can't in the medical arena. And you get paid immediately...
...these off-tone points with dramatic moments that reveal fundamental problems—and even occasional success—in the couple’s family life. The characters’ attempts to come to terms with their own faults culminate in a single moment of emotional payoff at the end. Stern’s creation handles this complex portrayal with elegance, suggesting that, despite the many problems that plague it, the marriage of Bette and Boo ultimately achieves its own beauty.—Staff writer Mary A. Brazelton can be reached at mbrazelt@fas.harvard.edu...