Word: slow
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...Wong's films are a snap to decode for anyone familiar with the tropes of classic movie romance. Consider just three. Music: a slow samba can seduce two strangers into moving to each other's emotional time, and 2046 sways to Perfidia and Quiz?s, Quiz?s, Quiz?s. Cigarettes: everyone puffs away pensively; the fumes wrap the characters in a retro-chic warmth as they dedicate themselves to that mesmeric movie rite, the sacrament of smoking. The kiss: 2046 has one of the great ones, between Chow and Su. He stands her against a wall and presses mouth to mouth. He moves...
...Paris and When in Rome, has the tone of bland chaos: much movement, no energy. The wacky visuals suggest that the film's editor was asked to spank this baby back to life; thus there are segments in split screen, multiscreen and, for a brief John Woo tribute, slow motion as doves flutter around a thug. In addition to cameos by Drew Pinsky (MTV's Dr. Drew) and Bob Saget (the girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea...
...better to remain competitive. It still trails DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, not to mention the industry average, in the Power quality rankings. Padilla, who was also named chairman of automotive operations, needs to revive the faltering Mercury and Lincoln brands and accelerate Ford's slow recovery in Europe. Some joyride. With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit...
...trust (REIT) fell 15%. Yet if the past few years have taught us anything, it's that a slug of real estate lends tremendous stability to an investment portfolio. So don't fall victim to the rate jitters. REITs can thrive so long as any interest-rate climb is slow and takes place over an extended period, says Christopher Haley, a REIT analyst at Wachovia Securities. And that's just the scenario many economists anticipate, as the rebounding economy finally generates jobs and pushes up the price of everything from aluminum to zinc. The best REITs focus on apartment buildings...
...Even though the effects of Brown were slow in coming - real desegregation only occurred with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and aggressive enforcement by the Department of Justice, which denied federal funds to any segregated school - they were revolutionary. Greenberg cites encouraging evidence today as the half-full approach: there are black Cabinet members in Democrat and Republican administrations; blacks hold top management positions in major corporations like Citibank, Xerox, Time Warner, and Merrill Lynch. When Greenberg started practicing law in 1949 there were only two black U.S. Congressmen. Today there...