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...Norman Rockwell qualities have gradually given way to human landscapes, my mental images of Widener have become daguerrotypes, gauzy and greyscale. A shot of the pillars at night, spilling down and across a frozen Yard. A slow panning of the benefactor's full name carved into stone. The inviting wasteland of snowy steps. A clump of visitors posed longingly or curiously on the very top step, taking photographs of each other...
Chillicothe's fortunes typically mirror those of the rest of the country. When a busload of TIME journalists traveling across the country on Route 50 visited the town four years ago, its economy was booming (even though residents were wary about trusting their good fortune). Paint Street, once a wasteland of decaying brick buildings, was dotted with antique shops and boutiques. Real estate prices were soaring. Shoppers scooped up 12,000 BTU air conditioners and top-of-the-line wrought-iron patio furniture...
...drown in the dirty Suzhou River, then re-emerge as someone else. She could be Kim Novak in Vertigo, hijacked into a James M. Cain plot and photographed in the grainy, high-contrast glamour of a Wong Kar-wai romance. Lou Ye lays out a ravishing wasteland of femmes fatales and lovelorn tough guys--all in 79 minutes. So it's in Mandarin? After Crouching Tiger that's no longer an excuse for missing a terrific movie. Whatever city this one is showing in...move there...
...movie theaters, it's a wasteland of retreads. Rugrats in Paris and 102 Dalmatians are unwelcome sequels, The Grinch is an uninvited, ill-intentioned remake (it was the first movie I've walked out of since Boxing Helena), The Sixth Day is another Arnold clone (my brother carped, "I saw that last year"; "Nooo. That was End of Days," I answered). Unbreakable has its charms, but it also relies on the same pacing, colors, stars (Willis and a Haley Joel look-alike), and even kitchen (!) as The Sixth Sense. Bounce showcases a been-there-done-that Benneth love affair, Charlie...
...month of pre-announcements, preemptive strikes, and plenty of nail-biting over oil prices and the euro - a month that's hacked away nearly a fifth of the NASDAQ index's value - the third-quarter earnings season finally comes to Wall Street. After Monday's Yom Kippur/Columbus Day wasteland, in which a middling-to-down day showed signs of life in stocks like day-trader favorites Juniper and JDS Uniphase but a sort of languid absenteeism in almost everything else, investors will get a chance starting Tuesday to place their bets...