Word: familiarities
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Under the commando-efficient direction of Taylor Hackford (The Devil's Advocate), the film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys. Even Ryan, with too much attitude and nonstop nutating, finally gets into the film's burly spirit. All this is enough to stoke the action engine, but the movie has a fuller agenda--to give its characters flesh and a meaningful melancholy...
...financial firms are offering a holiday gift idea for kids--youth-oriented growth funds. The funds generally have low entry fees ($250 to $700) and offer educational features such as newsletters describing how companies in the funds generate revenue. The Stein Roe Young Investor Fund, for example, features kid-familiar stocks such as the Gap, Disney and AOL, with descriptions of things corporate and breakdowns of industry performance...
...look back... well, why look back? The technological revolution has no rearview mirror. We have not only seen the future, we've moved into it. Yesterday is history. Familiar forms will disappear. Who needs fiction when we have "Survivor" and the Florida Supreme Court? And new formats will change what designer Bruce Mau calls "the global image economy." Soon the multiplexes will go digital; "films" will no longer exist. We're already consuming e-books, e-movies, e-music. Egad...
...their ruling alone, the Florida high court also stymied many prognosticators by forming unlikely camps of opinion: The judges ruling in favor of Gore were Anstead, Quince, Pariente and Lewis, while Justices Harding, Wells and Shaw dissented. Shaw's inclusion in Harding's dissent was most startling to those familiar with the Justices; he is considered one of the court's most liberal members...
Never mind eight years of President Clinton's persistent peacemaking; if George W. Bush ever does get the presidency he'll inherit a Middle East situation that would be familiar to his father. Peace looked to be the last thing on Israeli and Palestinian minds Friday as the West Bank exploded in a frenzy of violence that claimed seven Palestinian and three Israeli lives. And as both sides went into the weekend vowing to avenge their dead, the Israelis restored the siege of Palestinian areas that a European mediator this week warned could ultimately plunge the region into...