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...primed by the studios, moviegoers now expect summer pictures to have hairy chests. Cinema is action, the theory goes, and action -- aggression, propulsion, flying higher, shooting quicker, thinking with your fists -- is a male franchise. Women are supposed to go off in a corner and . . . nurture something. This is the traditional take, anyway, and it signals the vacuity of modern commercial films: endless, aimless variations on the old western climax of the white hat fighting the black hat while the crinolined heroine twitters and screams...
...retold it in a next-day version, more elegantly written and with some fresh reporting. But Butterfield had no reason to doubt the accuracy of the quotes in the Globe. So instead of buying a videotape of Maitre's speech, as the article implied he had, he took the quicker route of plucking the words straight from the daily. He also borrowed the Globe's choices for side-by-side comparisons of passages by Maitre and PBS film critic Michael Medved. Butterfield presumably reasoned his time would be better spent advancing the story by pursuing new information. Instead...
Fast cars, faster food -- everything is getting quicker, including the rush to relax. Hard-driving Americans who will not -- or cannot -- take time for $ the lengthy luxury of a resort spa still want tiny bites of that bliss. Increasingly they are getting them by popping around the corner to a day spa, where a body scrub, mud bath or Shiatsu massage can be had in a jiffy. From Manhattan to Los Angeles, the body-friendly pit stops are becoming the trendiest way to deal with clangorous city existence. "All the stress just falls away," says Susan Luokkala, a Los Angeles...
When the light chip reaches the marketplace, sometime within the next 10 years, it will be more compact and up to 20 times as fast as its silicon equivalent. Result: electronic equipment that is quicker, smaller and cheaper, in everything from cars to kitchens to wristwatches. The race for a light chip has been under way for years, and though Texas Instruments is the first to produce one, it still hasn't crossed the real finish line: practical consumer application...
Many of the dancers jockey for center spots on the stage. During filming breaks, "there are people who don't change clothes, or don't get water, or eat a quicker lunch, to get that spot," says Talvy...