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...have adopted the look of 1970s progressives, but our attitude toward today's politics bears little resemblance tot he idealism that characterizes progressives. After the 1992 presidential campaign, "Change" is a cliche, not a goal. Our voting rates are dismal, an our activism--our activism...
What is Paramount really worth? To establish a price range, analysts tot up the cash flow produced by each of the company's lines of businesses and divide the result by Paramount's 118 million outstanding shares. The major holdings include Paramount Pictures (Wayne's World 2, Addams Family Values), the company's Simon & Schuster (now Paramount Publishing) book-publishing arm and Madison Square Garden. Running those numbers, Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., has put the value of Paramount as low as $60 a share. (The stock closed at 81 1/8 last week after the Delaware court ruling...
Furthermore, the over-ambitious dialogue places undigestible speeches in the mouths of our tiny tot protagonists. I'll buy a stunning transition from cute kid to devilspawn, but Macaulay Culkin saying "Don't fuck with me" is just a bit too much to swallow...
Pigs in Heaven picks up five years later. Taylor and the baby, whom she has adopted and named Turtle, are admiring the WPA sculpture at Hoover Dam, when the child spots a man tumbling into a spillway. In keeping with Kingsolver's fictional line of determined women, the tot convinces the authorities that she did not imagine the incident. A search turns up a man with only an ankle injury. Turtle becomes a hero and a participant on an Oprah Winfrey show about kids who save people's lives. She is seen by millions, including Annawake Fourkiller, an Oklahoma lawyer...
...time she went tot he emergency room, her eye had blurred over completly. "That night my eye was so inflamed that I couldn't see," Pollock says. "It felt like my eye was going...