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If it isn't, it's a great way to spur short-term sales, since now the flagging Beanie Baby market will be enlivened by the desire to get in while you can.
The movie's simple-minded Tory-baiting "wears its bleeding heart conspicuously on its sleeve," says Stephen Holden in the New York Times . "You might feel like one of Thatcher's miners--manipulated, misled and maneuvered into an emotional corner," says John Anderson in the Los Angeles Times . The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane, however, praises the movie's feel for the British working class, "forced to sustain their flagging souls by quickness of wit."
And the Golden Arches slump: McDonald's U.S. business is flagging, Time says, because Americans increasingly favor tasty food over fast food.
At nearly four hours, the Oscar ceremony was longer and more predictable than Titanic . Despite the movie's romp to a record-tying 11 awards, the broadcast is still judged "the most entertaining and painless Oscarfest in years" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). Credit goes once again to host Billy Crystal for jokes about his own flagging career and l'affaire Lewinsky . On the downside, this year's outfits were deemed boring: less gothic and showing less cleavage than usual.
First there was boom, then there was bust, but a container port opened in the 1990s is breathing new life into the flagging commercial sector.