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...idea originated with Weld's recent plan to finance a new Megaplex, a state convention center and sports arena, with riverboat casinos and the statewide distribution of slot machines. When Weld's project began to succumb to political opposition, the Wampanoag tribal council stepped forward with its own gaming proposal...
...smooth for its own good. It's satisfying to watch all the book's moving parts mesh, but a certain lifelike uncertainty is sacrificed to the neatness. Happily, writer-director Frank Darabont understands this. He makes you feel the maddening pace of prison time without letting his picture succumb to it. He is also efficient and clever with secondary characters like James Whitmore's con librarian, who's been in so long he can't survive on the outside...
Tourists aren't exactly flocking to the financially-iffy EuroDisney theme park, but could they succumb to the allure of . . . Disneyland Paris? So goes the thinking of EuroDisney officials, who said today they hoped the new moniker would draw tourists visiting the French capital to the site, just 45 minutes by train. A Disney spokesman laid the plan bare: "We want to build more on the obvious synergy between Paris and Disneyland...
...medication redefined what was essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies is predisposed to be timid because of hypersensitivity of the amygdala -- a small structure in the brain. Fixing such problems may sound like better living through chemistry, but it rattles the very bedrock of identity...
...poked at a feeling until it sang a perky or rhapsodic Alan Menken tune. Nothing was lacking in these terrific movies, but something was missing: primal anguish, the kind that made children wet the seats of movie palaces more than a half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus...