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...world where competition is fierce and the job market is tight, that extra accessory or last-minute shoe shine may very well make the difference...
Accompanying the high tide in retailing was a year-end spike in credit-card use. One possible result: weak January and February sales, taking some of the shine off December's tinsel as the bills from the binge drop through America's mail slots...
...haven't had the greatest of luck this year," said Morris, whose perennially talented teams have yet to truly shine under his reign. "Obviously, the guys at Harvard have...
...thing, director Rob Reiner's realization of this passage is an omen of all the crispness to come in an extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story. All its scenes have been polished till they shine like brass belt buckles at a regimental parade. More important, metaphorically the few good men of that drill team have attained the military ideal -- perfect order, perfect discipline. They are, for their brief moment, an impossible dream made manifest. And a vivid contrast to the rest of the action...
What makes it shine is that Ondaatje alchemizes these abstract spaces with a poet's fluent radiance. Scene after scene shimmers with the jeweled brilliance of Arab poetry. The Indian alone, in the course of his wanderings, walks through cities where corpses are strung from trees and sleeps beside angels in deserted churches. He sees the Virgin Mary emerging from the sea (until her batteries give out), and he finds himself one of 12 defusers alone in a city without lights. Woven through such flights are colorful threads of historical arcana: richly researched evocations of the "desert Englishmen...