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...already getting heat for securing something of a sweetheart deal for his political bedfellow Murdoch. The mayor is chipping in one of the city's non-profit educational channels to TIME Warner, which will use it for Fox News until more room can be made on its system. The payoff for New Yorkers: 24-hour news from the owners of the tabloid New York Post, and an OJ-sized daily dose of the Senate campaign finance hearings, which only Fox News is carrying live and in their entirety...
This mad, mad world is inventively drawn; Smith and Jones make a finely mismatched pair. But, as in many comedies, all the good stuff is in Act I. So much energy is spent on the premise that little is left for the payoff. Men in Black suffocates from the facetiousness that gave it life, and the movie ends up less like Independence Day than like the hectic Mars Attacks...
...practices his steps--at his desk, in the subway, under a bridge in the mild rain --the zombie is revived. "Every day I feel so alive," he says. "Even being tired feels great." His rejuvenation lasts one act too many, but it has a satisfying payoff, to the tune of guess-which Rodgers and Hammerstein tune. For a beguiling summer movie treat, bring hankies, a dance partner and a pair of polished black shoes...
...political war at the lesser cost of losing before the Supreme Court. If the case isn't dismissed, the President's best hope now is that Jones is indeed in it for the money and that he can give her a small enough amount not to look like a payoff yet enough to fortify her against the wishes of her political supporters, for whom airing the charges is the goal. And who thinks the truth will actually ever be known? While it is hard to believe Jones is making it all up, it is not at all hard to believe...
...puts it, "the dominant alternative to the local exchange monopoly" costs a bundle. Capital spending of $228 million last year outweighed $190 million in sales. Bryan has raised a $1.1 billion war chest; without deregulation, he says, "the financial markets wouldn't have been open to us." But a payoff is in sight. In Ohio, where the company is attempting to woo customers away from Ameritech, ICG marketers' cold calls have led to a remarkable 50% in follow-up appointments. Bryan says ICG will probably have a positive cash flow next year...