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...It’s hard when people picked it apart, especially in front of everyone,” Barkett said. “But it was a thrill...
...instructive to watch a literary writer operate in a genre environment, where plot and pacing trump beautiful writing, where the thrill of what comes next is more important than the nuance of the now. When Chabon gets a little flowery, instead of marveling at his elegant prose, one makes mental let's-hurry-it-up-already gestures. But he has clearly mastered a basic truth about the mystery genre:it has an expressive power beyond the uses to which it is generally put. Solving mysteries has an existential meaning for Holmes. To him, it's the "essential business of human...
...immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when Cristina asserts towards the end, “though your acceptance will thrill me—it won’t define me. I am my mother’s daughter,” a lump the size of a best screenwriting Oscar wells up in your throat...
...Chinese companies have felt the thrill of shopping abroad before?and have later come to regret it. The first celebrated takeover came in 2001, when cell-phone designer Holley Group bought a NASDAQ-listed Californian company called American Champion Entertainment. Only later did the Chinese learn that American Champion's assets amounted to little more than a children's TV show called Adventures with Kanga Roddy. Chinese firms today still aren't rich enough to buy top-flight companies, but they do have money to spend. Lenovo earned $135 million in its last fiscal year on revenues of $3 billion...
...Grand... was not the only fantastic concept album to emerge from 2004, but joined an album released by brother-sister duo the Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat, in this distinction. Blueberry Boat was a kaleidoscopic thrill ride across a fantasy psychedelic world, reminiscent of the sadly-missed Elephant 6 collective. The next album from the Furnaces will surely be one of the next year’s most anticipated follow...