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...After Tomorrow could just as well have been called The Even More Perfect Storm. The premise is this: Global warming has thrown Earth's delicate climate grotesquely out of whack. Sinuously swaying tornadoes chew through the HOLLYWOOD sign in California. Killer hail bops Japanese commuters on the head. New York City is spectacularly swamped by a tidal wave and then snap-frozen at --150°F by a killer blizzard. (That must mean it's officially O.K. to destroy New York City in movies again.) Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal...
...scene is also seeing a growing number of women warriors. "There's a lot of pressure with all the people watching and having your reputation on the line," says Maryss, 23, a West Coast-based dancer who frequently participates in competitions at clubs. "[But] even if you do something whack, the crowd will support...
Colgan acknowledges Massino's stolid charisma, his use of power as an instrument of fear. "If Joey said something, people jumped. They wanted to be endeared to Joey," he says. "If they didn't do what he said, he'd whack them. And if he even thought you were an informant, he'd have you killed." Colgan managed to persuade Ray Wean--a Bonanno man so huge that when Colgan once arrested him, he couldn't get the cuffs around Wean's thick wrists--to be an undercover informant and later testify for the prosecution at Massino's '87 trial...
...sewing his face together in a kind of grimacing death mask, there's Adam Geczy's video elegy for the Port Arthur massacre, and TV footage of the Moscow theater siege glimpsed through the living-room curtains of Linda Wallace's installation Entanglements, 2004. Then there's the wicked whack of Destiny Deacon's bloodied boomerang in her enlarged Polaroid, My Boomerang Did Come Back, 2003. So do the images in this powerful survey - which goes to show that photography isn't dead. It's just got nine lives...
...spread between operating and GAAP earnings really got out of whack from 2000 to 2002. Fortunately, the GAAP gap is narrowing. The spread was 13% for 2003, compared with an astonishing 75% in the fourth quarter of 2002, says Howard Silverblatt, market equity analyst at Standard & Poor's. That convergence bodes well for earnings quality, he says, although profits posted don't always tell the whole story...