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...cheap organic food,” Farmer John says. “What happens is that people with a special relationship to the earth start to get squeezed out...this is about building a relationship with the land. If all you have is something cheap from the grocery store, that’s not necessarily going to transform the planet...it’s going to require some economic resources to make it happen...
...those Saturday mornings years ago, I never realized how special an opportunity I had to travel and experience different places. And I could say the same for my life now in the U.S. Indeed, for the past two years I have fallen into that same trap at Cambridge, moaning about how the grass is greener on the other side of the pond...
...Wild Sheep Chase, 1982 An amateur detective on a quest for a special breed of sheep encounters a woman with strange ears and the Sheep Man. Part of a three-book series, Sheep Chase has been translated into about 17 different languages...
...first weekend, Titanic made about $28 million. Nothing special. It didn't hit $150 million for 14 days, which, considering what Paramount had spent on it, was agonizingly sluggish. It wasn't until two months into the movie's release, when most movies are sputtering out, that Titanic proved its mettle. My Big Fat Greek Wedding started even smaller. Romantic movies don't open well. The one with the highest opening weekend is Will Smith's Hitch, which, at $43 million, is considered an underperformance...
Opening a movie big is not rocket science. It involves spending a lot of moolah on special effects and on preopening publicity. But even more, it involves appealing to the type of people for whom seeing a movie the first weekend is important: young men. Thus there are a lot of movies--this is not sexist, it's just business--about superheroes, things blowing up and terrifying ordeals at the hands of ghastly psychos. (To be fair, research shows young women also enjoy the last.) Then the guys--or girls--can attain some social status from being able to discuss...