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Perhaps. But Dreams' cloying earnestness makes jadedness look attractive. If you weren't convinced kids were different in 1963, we see the spun-sugar Meg actually skip across a hopscotch grid on the way home to watch Bandstand. The historical references are clumsy: a son arguing with his father declares, "Kennedy says it's time for new dreams and new frontiers!" Speaking of J.F.K., the pilot begins on a snowy day in November, setting up the hackneyed loss-of-innocence climax so obviously that you half expect a TV to crackle, "And in other news, President Kennedy will be assassinated...
...department store, not vice versa. It had to be high-caliber enough to bring people in, and that is why we have been successful." So successful, in fact, that Harvey Nicks now owns two out-of-store restaurants in London, the Oxo Tower and Prism, and has spun off a separate company to manage them...
...mother's standards, Andrea De Cruz didn't need to lose weight. But show business imposes strict requirements on appearance, and when the dial on the Singaporean TV actress's bathroom scales spun to more than 48 kilos, De Cruz started taking a Chinese diet pill named Slim 10 that she purchased from a colleague. Two months later, De Cruz, 28, was near death, unconscious in a hospital in Singapore. Doctors at first were baffled. But they came to suspect that an ingredient in the diet drug had ravaged her liver, which had all but shut down...
...terrifying, but was it terrorism? Was it politically motivated? Part of a well-planned conspiracy? Or was it the action of one angry man acting alone? First Hadayet killed Victoria Hen, 25, who was working at the ticket counter. Then he spun around and shot to death Jacob Aminov, a 46-year-old diamond importer and father of eight who was standing nearby, seeing off friends. This kind of attack--gunfire into an airport crowd--is one of the terror scenarios that El Al security guards train for most frequently. Almost at once, one of them tackled Hadayet with...
...always had to understand the weak points of an argument and the strongest arguments against it, what had to be emphasized and what had to be downplayed. Because I spent so much time doing that, I think I'll be able to recognize pretty quickly when I'm being spun...