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This combination flop-house/speak-easy is the residence of two women who once gave themselves entirely over to art: Greta (Patricia Clarkson), a German actress whose career took a dive after the death of Fassbinder, and Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a photographer of stunning, decadent portraits who abandoned her promising career to accompany Greta further and further into their shared black forest of drugs and sex. The women are still attached to each other, lustful and desperate but still, it seems on some level, inspired by each other's sensitive nature and past artistic achievements. Unfortunately, both women invested so much...
...Harvard] took a very long time, was verymeticulous and we're excited they choose us,"Bonwich said...
...credited with planting the seeds of a conservative movement that would eventually produce the Reagan Revolution and the Republican take-over of Congress. Conservative columnist George Will was quoted as saying that "we--27,178,188 of us--who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes...
...took his death for national Republican leaders to be shamed into acknowledging their debt to this uniquely-honest and principled politician by paying their respects at his funeral in Phoenix. But as they always say at those postmortem tributes: "It's too bad he wasn't around...
...without all the supportive facts the Justice Department would have liked: weeks of hearings, stacks of documents, testimony from a bevy of experts. Assembling that mountain of evidence would have taken far too much time when suing one of the world's fastest-moving companies, the government decided. "They took a risk in asking for the injunction and they knew that the factual foundation for the request was going to be very austere. They took a chance. They gambled a bit here," says William Kovacic, a law professor at George Mason University and former FTC official who specializes in antitrust...