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...Louis-Dreyfus, Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Benjamin, Ed Asner, David Schwimmer and the cast of Ugly Betty. Each of the 15-second to four-minute spots, which can be seen on deadlinehollywooddaily.com over the weekend and on speechlesswithoutwriters.com as of Nov. 26, is a riff on the theme "speechless." Hunter discovers her script has been outsourced to India; Linney tries to overcome her writer-less life with a 12-step meeting and a box of cards from the "Scene It?" trivia game; Penn mouths words the audience can't hear; Clarkson and Amy Ryan deliver an impassioned reading...
...that figuring out how to restore Citi's luster in the face of a halting economy has left him speechless. After 15 years of mostly flush times and five of downright bingeing, the business of lending may have run into a wall, at least in the U.S. Household debt grew almost three times faster than income from 2000 to 2006. Now the country appears to be tapped out, and a recession may result. Neither of those things is good news for Citigroup...
...world’s leading investment banks,” a recent Crimson editorial informs its readers, “it manages assets worth well over $2 trillion.” And if those numbers do not render you speechless, another of UBS’s accomplishments, the editorial presumes, certainly will. Apparently, by arranging what some hope to be China’s largest ever stock offering, “the bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.” And with that note, the chanticleers of self-righteous...
There is no place on my résumé where I will be able to write that I have been struck speechless by an interesting bend in New Hampshire State Route 109. There is no job interview where I will be able to brag about how I can tell whether a two-cycle engine is running too rich or too lean by the sound of it. And society gained no great benefit from the cement flagpole foundation that I set into some ledge. But I reckon that each of these things is good for the mitigation of at least...
...playwright John Patrick Shanley’s own words, “Life happens when the tectonic power of your speechless soul breaks through the dead habits of the mind. ‘Doubt’ is nothing less than an opportunity to reenter the Present.” That’s a tall order for any play, particularly one that clocks in at about an hour and a half. So it feels odd to say that “Doubt” should be tighter, quicker, faster-paced–anything to wake up the play?...