Word: slump
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Copying Beethoven Directed by Agnieszka Holland MGM 3 stars Final masterpieces have a real way of bringing a man down. Director Agnieszka Holland’s latest film “Copying Beethoven” captures such a slump, showing us the last, deafened days of Beethoven, with the Ninth at his back. Holland, who directed “The Secret Garden,” enlists Ed Harris to play the German genius, and though both director and star create much bluster and intensity, neither of them offer the audience much more than empty sound and fury. Apart from...
...while last night’s 4-0 victory over the now-No. 3 Eagles is certainly no guarantee of things to come, it did snap Harvard’s 0-3 season-opening slump, the Crimson’s first since...
...Unlike BMW or Mercedes-Benz, VW can't charge the rich prices necessary to offset the cost of exporting from Germany. And unlike its German rivals, VW doesn't make cars in the U.S.--its one American plant shut in 1988--a problem given the dollar's slump versus the euro...
...Brown, 35, lives near Philadelphia. Two years ago, she was in a serious slump. She had just gotten divorced, her parents had recently died, and she was supporting her 14-year-old daughter alone. There was also this credit card bill. It wasn't much, maybe a few hundred bucks, but it fell into the non-priority pile and was soon forgotten. Not the smartest move on Brown's part, but you can imagine how it would happen...
...minutes, each with 100 seconds. The cable-news Jacobins at Fox News may be wishing they had rejiggered their calendar so that they could have celebrated their 10th anniversary a year ago, when they were at their ratings apex. Today, the channel is in its first ratings slump, still far ahead of CNN and MSNBC, but not by as much...