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...truly desperate final act, the rug is yanked out from under us once again. The movie’s ultimate revelation is so ludicrous, so whimsical, and so utterly in defiance of mathematical probability that it obliterates any of the psychological intrigue that hadn’t already been undermined during the movie’s second half. If Mangold had played it straight, without attempting to grapple with grand themes and a controversial finish, Identity might have been a much more successful film. As it stands, the movie faces an identity crisis as severe as any of its characters?...
...truly desperate final act, the rug is yanked out from under us once again. The movie’s ultimate revelation is so ludicrous, so whimsical, and so utterly in defiance of mathematical probability that it obliterates any of the psychological intrigue that hadn’t already been undermined during the movie’s second half. If Mangold had played it straight, without attempting to grapple with grand themes and a controversial finish, Identity might have been a much more successful film. As it stands, the movie faces an identity crisis as severe as any of its characters?...
Jackson Pollock couldn't sleep. The next night would see the opening of the first gallery show devoted to his new drip paintings. For months he had flung lashing tangles of color onto canvases laid across the floor. Literally slapdash, yet as intricately woven as a Persian rug, his pictures pointed the way to the future--or would if anyone noticed. So Pollock sat up late with his sister-in-law. To comfort him, she read his palm. He was going to be a very famous painter, she promised...
...trail, Cheney sounded ever more hawkish. He had been outraged by Saddam's attempt in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait, and he thought the short bombing campaign after Iraq kicked out the U.N. inspectors in 1998 was a joke. "We have swept that problem under the rug for too long," he told a campaign aide in 2000, speaking of Iraq. "We have a festering problem there...
Another antiviral drug, called pleconaril, had the rug pulled out from under it last March when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve it, citing concerns that pleconaril might interfere with the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and other drugs. To combat that problem, Viropharma, the biotech company that developed pleconaril, decided to reformulate the pill, turning it into a nasal spray, thereby lowering its dose and the chance that it might interfere with other drugs. Viropharma is now looking for another pharmaceutical company to help defray the costs of testing the new formula...