Word: remarkable
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...Apple's Steve Jobs, tech buffs had plenty to buzz about last week. At Macworld Expo in San Francisco, a long-overdue Mac operating system drew only polite applause and new PowerBooks rumored to be ready never debuted, but Jobs brought loyalists to their feet with an offhand remark that he will drop "interim" from his title and be the permanent iCEO (i for Internet). Meanwhile, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the throngs seemed almost as mesmerized by the cafeteria's curly fries as they were by the newest generation of high-definition TVs. The star...
Perhaps that's a misleading remark; after all, Magnolia never drags, and it bears no resemblance whatsoever to immobile talkfests like My Dinner with Andre. But while its characters do make choices, take actions and find themselves in precarious positions, none of these happenings brings about an "event"--a predicament that alters the course of the story or distracts from initial situations. Which is perfect, since the characters' situations are already so rich and deeply human to begin with...