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...films that empowered and qualified his criticism. “He was a filmmaker who displayed the conflict in classical American liberalism in the starkest possible form,” says Connor, referring to the harsh journalistic style of Fuller’s classic 1953 film noir Pickup on South Street...
...addition to being one of the most important and cutting-edge examples of 1950s film noir, Pickup highlights the disparity and paradox between the two most prominent American values of the time: individual ambition and blindly patriotic anti-Communism. In one of the film’s most potent moments, the police threateningly ask the protagonist if he knows what treason is, to which he responds with “Who cares?” Released in the year of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executions, Pickup is rife with political daring, both endangering and enabling Fuller?...
...relief suggestion comes at a time when the government is trying to rein in a budget deficit that amounted to 3.3% of GDP last year. Although the fiscal outlook has improved lately due to a pickup in the local economy, many officials and politicians say a sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong's tax system, such as introduction of a sales tax, is needed?making it harder to sell a reform that looks like tax relief for gamblers. In September, Financial Secretary Henry Tang said he might consider the reduction if it could be clearly demonstrated that tax revenues would...
...barbecue is rumored to be serving wings, and the beer distributor is all set to provide students with all the juice of the barley they can drink. House Committees are researching recipes for spiked hot cider once more, and Enterprise Rent-a-Car is, doubtless, selling out of pickup trucks. Besides the presence of four odd representatives of the Boston Police Department (BPD), 2004’s Harvard-Yale tailgate is set to rival 2002’s in fun factor and no doubt surpass it in safety...
...over," says Lindsay Brooke, analyst with auto research firm CSM Worldwide. Last spring at the New York Auto Show, GM president Gary Cowger said the attention paid to hybrids included "a lot of hype." Today GM is focusing its hybrid efforts on less fuel-efficient vehicles like pickup trucks and SUVs, while investing in fuel-cell technology. Unlike its rivals, which think this could take 15 to 20 years, GM contends that fuel-cell cars could be on the road early next decade. In the meantime, GM could find itself losing a nasty game of catch...