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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftertaste, rendering some of the stories painful to get through. While the heavy reliance on interviews give The Unknown City a realistic outlook, it presents astonishing racial and sexist stereotypes in the process. As Buffalo experienced a 21 percent jump in blue collar unemployment from 1960 to 1990, interviewees search for someone to blame and inevitably point their fingers at the wrong sources. We hear people attribute their own unemployment to minorities, welfare recipients, women entering the workforce--almost anything but de-industrialization. And it sometimes seems as though the authors intentionally put an asymetric focus on more ignorant, sensationalized...
Sure enough, there are already many sites out there arguing for human rights and democracy in China. A quick search calls up the most varied types of Web sites. There are those representing established organizations, many based in Hong Kong. Others are more personal; many tell the stories of Chinese dissidents and urge visitors to support their cause. Also on the web are personal stories of life in China; there was one, for example, posted by an individual currently living in the U.S. telling of how the Chinese police brutally infringed upon his rights while he resided there...
...film offers seven characters in search of a spanking. The main miscreant is Dedee (Christina Ricci), 16-year-old tornado-park trash from Louisiana. Think of all the black widows and blond minxes from old film noir, give them the mouth of a Quentin Tarantino tough, and you have Dedee--not only in your face but down your throat. In the film's first 15 minutes, she desecrates her stepfather's grave, runs away from home with her one-testicled boyfriend, dumps him to visit her gay half brother, seduces his boyfriend and declares she's pregnant...
...Opposite of Sex is that rare grownup movie on the summer landscape. As Lucia says, "This is how we do things on the planet Maturia. We have much to teach you." Today's lesson: pay fond attention to these seven characters, who finally realize they are in search of one another. Somehow they will teach and touch...
When I buy call or put options, I'm not investing in a company; I'm trading pieces of paper in search of short-term profits. Here the fundamentals of the underlying business are usually less important than my read of how other investors are going to respond to new developments. There's no religious faith involved. I'm dispassionate about my stock trades...