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Worse yet, the made-to-order system, which is supposed to give the kitchen flexibility to add new menu items, has made some McDonald's slower--adding precious seconds, if not minutes, to a customer's wait at the counter or the all-important drive through, which accounts for about half the chain's sales. A small but vocal number of franchisees--who invested thousands of their own dollars in the kitchen changes--are seething. And customers are also losing patience. "Since they took away the heat lamps, it takes forever--and the food still isn't hot," an Atlanta...
Most movies are the crudest of transportation devices: clown cars for idiot laughter, stock cars of bloody revenge. Not often does a film truly transport viewers outside themselves--or deep inside. One such precious vehicle is Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, which has shown its class and mass appeal by winning the top prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival and by becoming, in the first 25 days of its release, the all-time top box-office hit in its native Japan. Now this delectable treat from the world's most revered master of animation (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess...
...diversion from the reality that the war on terrorism, while scoring plentiful victories against Afghan villagers and the Constitution, has left Osama bin Laden and his network largely unscathed. Perhaps the biggest reward of all will be the expansion of U.S. dominance over the Arab world and the precious oil that Cheney needs to keep his heart pumping...
...Worse yet, the made-to-order system, which is supposed to give the kitchen flexibility to add new menu items, has made some McDonald's slower - adding precious seconds, if not minutes, to a customer's wait at the counter or the all-important drive through, which accounts for about half the chain's sales. A small but vocal number of franchisees - who invested thousands of their own dollars in the kitchen changes - are seething. And customers are also losing patience. "Since they took away the heat lamps, it takes forever - and the food still isn't hot," an Atlanta...
...reason to tune in (make it $2 million, and I'll watch E.R.!). But the reason to stick with it is to see if this ambitious but self-conscious series becomes more than the sum of its affectations--flat line readings, characters with names like Mr. Smooth, precious tilted-camera shots to remind you how weird it all is. The producers (including writer-producer Ben Affleck) seem to want to use the contest as bait to draw viewers to a genuinely different kind of series. If they have a vision--not just a marketing gimmick built out of spare Twin...