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Filming in his usual Pennsylvania locale, Shyamalan creates an patent allegory for multicultural American society. The apartment complex, where much of the story happens, a Benetton-like array of races and personalities, from chain-smoking twenty-somethings to a weightlifter with a preference for his right arm. “Melting pot” doesn’t begin to do it justice...
...killing over 200 commuters, and injuring close to 800.By all accounts, Bombay has fought back. If terror attacks are meant, above all else, to cripple the lives and spirits of common people, then Bombay provided a fitting response—trains on the bomb-affected Western line ran as usual the next day, with many commuters returning to work on their preferred mode of transport. Here in Calcutta, I have heard from many of my friends in Bombay about the “indomitable spirit” of their city, a phrase that has been used extensively by the television...
...their stocks relabeled, retailers returned their bottles to suppliers. But just a fraction of the needed new labels had been made on time. Imports, too, have been affected. During the first week of new regulations, just 1.8 million newly labeled bottles entered Russia - earning just 5% of the usual weekly revenues from imports. And apparently the database is flawed as well. The usais cannot support more than 10 users at the same time - it simply shuts down, writes the Moscow daily Kommersant. "Today, I can't offer imported alcohol, tomorrow I won't be able to offer domestic vodka," says...
LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...
...right that Ralph Ginzburg go to jail, then in all justice the same court that sentenced him should proceed at once to close down ninety percent of the movies now playing and the newspapers that carry their advertising. Compared to the usual run of entertainment in this country, Ginzburg's publications and his ads are on a par with the National Geographic...