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...urging of his ex-wife, a studio executive (Tea Leoni in an appealing, intelligent performance). Just before shooting starts, Val gets a case of psychosomatic blindness and must keep his infirmity from the cast and crew. This could be funny if Allen had either the gags to sustain it or the gift of physical comedy to embody it. He has neither, and the film plays like an endless prank call to an industry that passed...
...interpretation (at least the Fed won't raise rates next week) in favor of the glummer view: The longer businesses wait before hiring again, the greater the chance consumers will run out of money, or the confidence to spend it, before they do. The business' recovery, meanwhile, can't sustain itself without consumer demand...
...corpse tells Jack that his brother was beaten to death...FORECAST: Patterson might as well have called this one 'The Beach Novel,' because it's the hardcover people will be reading at the Hamptons and elsewhere this summer. His planned five-city author tour will only help sustain its inevitable position atop bestseller list." Naturally, Patterson's publisher is grateful to this cash-register-friendly author. A few weeks ago, we went to a lavish Little, Brown dinner at Le Cirque in Patterson's honor. Foie gras, anyone...
...Graham, the only questions that remains is whether the freshmen can sustain this sense of team for four years, as the seniors have...
...Orangewomen jumped out to a boat-length lead at the start, but they could not sustain their fast pace. Radcliffe caught up by the 700-meter mark and pulled in front at the halfway point. The Black and White won the race by the five-seconds over Syracuse, who were the defending cup champions, while Dartmouth finished a distant third...