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These critics have a point. Whether she's dealing with a depressed book store clerk or the fact that her bicycle is stolen while she visits his shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women...
There are good reasons for that. The U.S. is by far the largest economy in the world, more than three times bigger than no. 2, Japan. And with annual imports of more than $2 trillion, it is the world's shop-till-you-drop economic engine. If that engine stutters, the others grind to a halt. This is an old tale, but with a new twist to sober the Schadenfreudians: Europe's bankers and mortgage providers have been just as stupid and greedy as their American comrades-in-harm - and this in countries that pride themselves on having tamed...
...poached-salmon sandwiches, owner Laura Heap says she's already noticed a downturn in business: "I get a lot of local mums, and they're spending less. Whereas they used to buy their eggs and bread, now they're just buying a cup of tea." Heap, who opened the shop less than a year ago, has dropped her prices by 25% and let some staff go. She remains upbeat about the future, but with Canary Wharf on her doorstep, she concedes, "I do feel a slight wave of fear...
...Ritchie's new film, RockNRolla, proves himself a charismatic, enigmatic secret keeper. Crowe is a bit of a disappointment and a distraction. He usually disappears persuasively into his roles, but here he wears the paunchy Hoffman like an off-the-rack suit from the Big & Tall Men's Shop...
Instead of settling in the North, where he could have avoided de jure discrimination, J.L. decided to set up shop in his hometown, Selma. After the success of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that led to passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965, J.L. dedicated his life to making sure that the promises of the civil rights movement were realized...