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Michael D. Smith faced more than a difficult market when he moved into the basement of his wife’s brokerage firm to start up a computer security business. First a steam pipe in the ceiling broke, flooding the basement with scalding water. Then the sewage backed up into the office. “When you start a company, you find space wherever you can, no matter how disgusting and smelly it is,” Smith says of the business, Liquid Machines Inc., which has grown from two to 60 employees since it debuted six years...
...When it opened on Friday, Dan was decapitated by Saw IV, grossing only about $4 million to the horror movie's $14 million. Then it picked up steam Saturday, while Saw lost some teeth. Older viewers may catch up with Dan; in industry parlance, the film may have legs. Let's hope so, not because Dan is anything special, but for the sake of grown-up comedy, which this one intermittently tries...
...body shaken by chills, without energy for anything, and I didn’t even want to eat.” As with any love story, the ending makes or breaks all: Will they get together? It is here that Vargas Llosa’s train runs out of steam. For such an unconventional story with such unconventional characters, the ending is painfully banal: the bad girl returns to her schoolboy sweetheart. The bad girl-turned-good ending is wholly uncompelling. “At least admit I’ve given you the subject for a novel. Haven?...
...back combination of “Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues” and “Feeling Lucky.” Not surprisingly, the first squanders the respectable tension built by an eerie string section, creepy vocals, and a disorienting beat. It quickly runs out of steam and reveals itself as a rip-off of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” without the grimy, visceral payoff...
...Borrowed from animé and manga, Suekichi's style is labeled "steampunk" and draws visual inspiration from a steam-powered epoch, when amateurs fashioned fabulous machines for all kinds of purposes. In a tucked-away workshop, that's exactly what Suekichi does - working with old parts, he crafts watches one might imagine being worn by characters in a Jules Verne novel. Some 6,000 have been sold in the past 12 years - a very respectable figure, considering the amount one unhurried artisan can produce, and a demonstration of Suekichi's ability to imagine everyday objects afresh...