Word: tornado
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...major television network or a writer from a leading newspaper is when a storm has just destroyed their neighborhood. And when the big shots do vist the outland, they always dress wrong, covered in either condescending denim or some haughty blend of wool and silk. Then they call the tornado that struck the place a "cyclone," even though the place is Minnesota and Minnesotans don't use that word...
Whether a butterfly's wing beat can cause a tornado is still a central debate of chaos theory. But it is now proven that drawings first published more than four months ago in Denmark have seeded outrage among Muslims from Gaza to Jakarta and embittered believers making their lives in Europe. An editor's decision--call it feisty or cavalier--to ask Danish cartoonists to depict the Prophet Muhammad has provoked a volcanic reaction, from a Muslim boycott of Danish goods to the torching of two European embassies in Damascus to death threats and lawsuits against newspapers, and even...
...More important is the fact that the news that tanked the market last week was grossly misjudged. Most earnings reports have been very good; it's just that Wall Street types, as usual, were hoping for even better, and their disappointment whipped up a tornado of selling that they may soon regret. Consider last week's big earnings so-called "misses." Apple Computer's net income rose 92%; Yahoo reported an 83% profit gain; Motorola's profit was up 86%. Not too shabby. Yet the stocks were trashed. Arguably, these companies should have done a better job of managing Wall...
...TORNADO WARNINGS MADE KING FRET about his crowd, as ominous streaks of gray and purple crossed the sky from the west. Radio bulletins told of a seven o'clock twister that picked up and dumped a stretch of asphalt on cars near Star City, Ark., killing seven people, and the first squalls hit Memphis half an hour later in slanted sheets of rain. Phone calls from the Lorraine to Lawson in Mason Temple verified that the crowd indeed was thin--perhaps fewer than 2,000 in the huge hall that had packed seven times that many for King's visit...
...with the family?s tennis pro. Elder son Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) is burrowing into his teenage misery like a creature out of Dostoyefsky - or, perhaps, one of his father?s novels. As for 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline), puberty has landed on him like a house after a tornado, and he?s obsessed with spilling his seed in all the wrong places. This catalog of deceits and embarrassments may not sound particularly hilarious, but, trust me, it is. Baumbach?s sympathy for the all-too-human spectacle of lust pratfalling over itself makes the film as funny...