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...once again resort to a tactic he had used after Texas Air won a battle for control of Continental Airlines. In 1983 Lorenzo took Continental into bankruptcy proceedings, which enabled the company to void union contracts and slash employee salaries. That maneuver earned Lorenzo a reputation as a union buster...
...comedy is Buster Keaton-- ish in its precision timing. Chow's swooping camera is as nimble, and as respectful of Hong Kong film tradition, as the veteran actors he has assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...
...started to ask him, 'Hey, what are the things you're doing with Barry? He's an incredible player. I want to still be able to work out at that age and keep playing,'" Giambi testified, according to the Chronicle. "And that's how the conversation first started." Buster Olney, a baseball writer for ESPN the Magazine who has a vote in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame elections, calls Giambi's court appearance the "Mount Everest of steroids and baseball testimony. Nothing else is going to come close...
...actors also do their part delivering the full emotional payload, especially Portman. As much as she manages to make you love her character—and it is hard not to after her adorable Buster Keaton references—she also convinces you that Alice may not necessarily be someone you want to have around. The actors are also all indebted to Marber for his witty and overall intelligent script, which makes a terrific transition from the stage to the screen...
...campaign's final week brought no clear front runner, and some of its strangest images yet, as Howard, reviled by many workers as a career union buster, was cheered in Tasmania by members of one of the nation's toughest unions, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. "Rats in the ranks," Labor candidate for Bowman and Australian Services Union organizer Donna Webster fumed about the cfmeu. "That was an absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue...