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That's not to say that The Blair Witch Project isn't deeply creepy. While most horror movies build to only a few terrifying moments, The Blair Witch Project manages to sustain tension for minutes on end. By the end of the movie, even the pastoral daytime scenes are uneasy, and they get shorter and shorter, while the night scenes feel nerve-wrackingly long. Also, the scary things in most horror movies are outlandish and laughable. Scream makes a virtue of this, winking at every silly cliche of the genre. But Blair Witch invests ordinary things--piles of rocks, bundles...
...into focus. The only thing that seems to bother him is the vacant landscape. But what about the worker bees who assemble electronic components for subminimum wages on their cramped living-room floors? And how long can any but a handful of key players in a chaotic start-up sustain their contact highs? If Bronson had dared to bare all, then The Nudist would have been truly revealing...
...Clough, was due largely to a speculative rise in industrial commodity prices that "has already lapsed." Though Asian countries are starting to recover from the crisis that knocked demand and commodity prices so far down in 1998, recovery has been too weak, in the view of board members, to sustain the early-spring increases...
...cast and crew in the engine rooms of these Internet dreadnoughts setting sail for IPO land, the reality is that many of them will never see stock-option millions. Some can't sustain the grueling hours. Still others won't stay at the company for the four years it takes the typical options package to vest--i.e., for the shares to become sellable. "The options are what lead people onward," says Patrick Neeman, director of development at the website Buyingedge.com "But these people waiting for the big IPO are just waiting forever. The only people who get wealthy...
...years away from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, which is revered by Fundamentalists. Everything that is harsh in Lewis is softened by Graham, whose essential optimism is inconsistent with his apocalyptic expectations. But you cannot read Peace with God and expect consistency; soft-edged Fundamentalism, Graham's stance, will not sustain scrutiny...