Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brokerage, is getting into the discount game; Charles Schwab, the original no-frills discounter, now charges some of the highest commissions online and offers a full menu of advice. Meanwhile, major exchanges are moving toward evening hours so day traders have more time to lose their money. This special market for insomniacs will eventually go 24 hours, all but ending the family meal and any shot at a good night's sleep...
...that the 740 students of Willard Elementary are broken up about it. The K-4 school is so old and overcrowded that Marion Stern teaches reading in a converted bathroom; Riel Sbar teaches special-needs kids in a hallway; and two other classes have been pushed into dusty corners of the basement. The acting principal, Dianne Scott, wears sneakers to hike to annexes No. 8 and No. 3, which are more than four blocks away, but hip waders would have been better during a storm on May 24. The playground flooded, and she had to pull two classes...
...Angeles in 1937, a techno-nerd (Craig Bierko) must consider the possibility that he murdered his mentor-boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and doesn't remember doing so. While he creates an agreeably menacing atmosphere, Rusnak never makes us care particularly about anyone. One finds oneself praying for a wowing special-effects sequence. Or anything else that would jolt this movie out of its inconsequence...
What Canby missed is that it's the moments between the plot points that are worth watching. It was the ballet of precision violence that flew off the screen; every combination you can create in Mortal Kombat can be found in a Lee movie. And even with all the special-effects money that went into The Matrix, no one could make violence as beautiful as Lee's. He had a cockiness that passed for charisma. And when he whooped like a crane, jumped in the air and simultaneously kicked two bad guys into unconsciousness, all while punching out two others...
What was it about Diana, Princess of Wales, that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess. To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction...