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...CITI SLICKER...
...hasn't lost his stroke or his speed. Those deft directorial touches, and the intelligence the movie both exudes and assumes from its audience, put Charlie Wilson's War up there with Hollywood's grand old comedies: the Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder movies about slick schemers and their slicker women. The Nichols-Sorkin film is so much fun, you will not only forget all of Hollywood's serioso war movies, you may forget the international calamities that Wilson's largesse indirectly...
...since come to rue several comments he's made on the hustings, but he's been nearer the mark with that one. It's not a revolution in Australian campaigning - yet. But more than halfway through the runup to Nov. 24, the Web is harder than ever to ignore. Slicker websites are spruiking policy, online analysis is rife and political parties have YouTube video-sharing channels. Labor, under leader Kevin Rudd, is running sites like kevin07.com.au, where voters can blog views as they buy T shirts, while John Howard has ventured onto YouTube for policy announcements. Ads have debuted online...
...Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences in almost every foreign country prefer Hollywood movies to their own: because ours are bigger, slicker - movie...
...half brother. After a series of prototypes--with names like Dolphin, Eagle, Falcon and Gecko--the team members nailed a version in 2004 that met their goal of shrinking a laptop to one-eighth its size. But it was too hot for laps, so it was scrapped. A faster, slicker processor has since cooled things down. Today, however, the heat is external. In the decades since Allen birthed the Microsoft mouse, hardware competition has roared. In addition to OQO, Sony and Samsung have released mini laptops in the same $2,000 range as the FlipStart. And Apple looms...