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...cinemetography is good, direction OK. The closing scenes (namely McKellen's acting) make me cry. I shiver as the cold numbers (the "Butcher's Bill"), like ticker tape, flash periodically at the bottom of the screen. Elton John's "The Last Song" haunts me. Reagan's inglorious ascent parallels perfectly the disease's inaugural progress. Gays are bestowed some sympathetic representation. Best line: "I'm not afraid of dying anymore. I'm afraid for the people who live...
...most improved autos in the latest J.D. Power survey carried U.S. nameplates. (Three U.S. brands made the Power list of the 10 highest-rated cars in terms of owner satisfaction, up from one model when the survey began in 1986.) Moreover, with the strong yen triggering ticker shock in showrooms that sell Japanese makes, consumers are finding that buying American makes practical as well as patriotic sense...
...proposal will increase the price of Cambridge parking stickers to $8 for the first sticker of the household. A ticker for a second car will cost $12, and any additional stickers would cost...
PARADES IN NEW YORK City are always an extravagant affair--from ticker tape parades for astronauts to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring every cartoon character from Betty Boop to a Mutant Ninja Turtle...
...There never was a good war or a bad peace," Benjamin Franklin wrote to Josiah Quincy in 1773, expressing a simple truth that helps explain why Americans cheer so loudly as the victorious soldiers march through the center of town, leaving behind a trail of limp ticker tape, burst balloons -- and grumbling pundits. Some people will carp at the giddy excess and point out that the U.S. is cheering while the gulf still burns. They may be overlooking something that has changed in the way Americans think about themselves and what their country has achieved...