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...something extraordinary. It was never a "no brainer" piece of pop entertainment. Unlike most of the other big productions of the year, it is neither a sequel nor the launching point of a series of sequels. It is not based on a comic book. It was not designed to spawn a vast array of toys, merchandising, video games and theme-park attractions. It is an earnest and heartfelt work. But the same voices that decry the formulaic commercialism of mainstream Hollywood product do not seem to applaud the studio heads who had the courage to back this unusual film...
...wake of China honch Jiang Zemin's visit, people are beginning to realize that the wily/cherubic Jiang managed to go a whole week without saying anything at all. But at least no one tried to kill him ? a la the deadpan Airplane spawn The Naked Gun, which I mention here simply because it's really, really funny. It's Reggie...
...Christian Identity which allows this discussion to take place," he says. "Jews as the spawn of Satan and black people as mud people also allows them a certain common ground...
...being a parent renders self-absorption impossible. Having kids may improve the self, but only incidentally, and the self never feels worse than when it stumbles out of bed for the 4 a.m. feeding. And as boomers are discovering, parenthood tends not to make you rich (unless you spawn the Jackson Five, which probably isn't worth...
...fishing hot spot is pinpointed by sonar, satellite-navigation systems enable vessels to return unerringly to the same location year after year. In this fashion, fishermen from New Zealand to the Philippines have been able to home in on orange roughy and giant groupers as they gather to spawn, in some cases virtually eliminating entire generations of reproducing adults...