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...addition, Vilsack took the opportunity to ask - indeed, plead - with the media to desist forever from use of the misnomer swine flu, which has been the cause of many of the pork industry's woes. "It may seem silly," said Vilsack, "unless you're a pork producer. Then, you have to tell your family you can't afford to pay the bills because you're now selling your product for less than it cost you to produce it." (Read "Amid Swine Flu Fears, the Pork Market Falls...
...falls apart. Peter Gibbons—the programming anti-hero of “Office Space”—worked as a character because his depression and desperation perfectly highlighted the suffocating workplace tedium in which he lived. Joel, by contrast, simply comes off as whiny; there seems to be a gaping disconnect between his actual problems and his emotional priorities. As his company barrels toward financial ruin, Joel’s complaints about his lackluster sex life seem utterly removed from anything that should matter. The real dissatisfaction comes at the end of the movie when...
...presidential campaign—followed by a string of other producing credits, including “Thin,” a 2006 documentary focusing on the rehabilitation of women with life-threatening eating disorders. While the production of a magazine hawking $4,000 wool coats may seem like something of a departure from Cutler’s more serious subject matter, he insists that the industry is worth exploring. “I’m really just telling stories about people,” he says. “Anna was a subject who struck my curiosity. [She?...
...It’s True” begins with a bass line immediately echoed by soaring strings. Sonically, it’s a perfect, retro pop gem—a lost Four Tops hit coated in pre-fab shimmer and organ flourishes. Though certain cutesy lyrics seem quite in keeping with Motown simplicity (“Let’s make jam when life gives us a peach”) the song maintains a meaningful ambiguity. Joining the ranks of great uncertain love songs, “If It’s True” embraces the unknown...
...concern that the public has right now is government spending. Even though we've had a disaster economically and I think we took some very important steps, people are understandably distressed about the size of the debt and deficits, because they're saying to themselves that just doesn't seem responsible...