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...good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about the best storyteller there is." Thomson sees an ideal match of this man and this medium: "[H]e loved to float away on his magic carpet of a voice into adventure, romance and flat-out nonsense. Radio was his party...
...next meeting, meanwhile, comes in early October, and here's some free advice, stipulated on the assumption that things look as flat and featureless in late September as they do in late August (not a big leap): Cut 50 more points, bringing the Fed funds target to an even 3 percent, and make the message very simple: We're done until further notice...
...nothing grander than relief from the August heat. But still, one can't help noticing that what energy is left in mainstream American moviemaking these days is concentrated in lowball comedy. Action movies like The Score are tired and talky. Romantic comedy like America's Sweethearts is as flat as yesterday's bottled water. And judging by The Others, even ghosts are turning into gormless dinner guests who have outstayed their welcome. Only the very occasional nut case, like Rat Race, has conviction and divinely orchestrated lunacy. This may (or may not) say something about the pathology of our everyday...
...listened to the narrator talk about the raised flat section that was the woman’s hair, I couldn’t find the area being described. I scanned my fingers over the whole drawing, trying to piece together where one woman ended and another began, trying to understand their shapes and positions...
...numbers keep coming in, and they're all flat. Retail sales, after slipping most of the summer, are leveling off. Unemployment is essentially stuck at 4.5 percent. Manufacturing has been firmly in the tank for almost a year, and Wall Street doesn?t seem to be going anywhere at all. The economy is resolutely limping along at what appears to be just above zero growth, just like it has since January...