Word: return
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...disappearing dishes. "In the West, they had sourdough pancakes. Some of the local alcohols" - he stops to ponder the various homebrews of yesteryear and concludes, "We don't make enough booze in this country." Indeed, the Arkansan art of producing cherry bounce (cherry-infused whiskey) needs to return. (See pictures of urban farming...
...dozen years ago, Johnny Depp was here as director of The Brave, a gorgeous, obscure Western in which he costarred with Marlon Brando, and which has been hard to find ever since. He's expected to return as part of the contingent promoting Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. This is the film Heath Ledger was shooting when he died in Jan. 2008; Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell graciously stepped in to assume different aspects of the Ledger role. Fans here will greet Depp as an honorary Frenchman; his spouse-equivalent, and the mother...
...month often dominated by a Sam Raimi action film: his Spider-Man trilogy has earned $2.5 billion worldwide. But Raimi earned his early rep, or notoriety, with the low-budget gross-out Evil Dead horror films, and his Cannes entry, beguilingly titled Drag Me to Hell, marks a return to those dark roots...
Government spending is the easiest to predict. With only 6% of the $787 billion stimulus package disbursed thus far, there's a lot of spending on the way in the next year and a half. After that, pressure from buyers of Treasury securities will probably force a return to fiscal discipline. But over the short run, government should provide a big boost...
...Italian and French officials now say they believe the pair had been trying to furtively return to Europe from Syria, where they had picked up the five Palestinian and Syrian illegals as volunteers for their suspected planned attacks. "We know what kinds of activities [Ayachi and Gendron] had been up to after watching them for months, and they'd never run illegal aliens into Europe before," says a French counter-terrorism official. "You can be pretty sure if they were arrested by the Italians bringing five illegals in when they did, it wasn't to organize a little round...