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Economists torture themselves because they think there should be concomitant inflation, but they are now starting to see that the inflation that would normally exist as a result of such enthusiastic money printing is not happening because technology has reduced costs and improved productivity dramatically.
The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
On Saturday (8 p.m.), HBO airs Steven Spielberg's uneven slave-revolt drama, Amistad , with strong performances by Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, and newcomer Djimon Hounsou as the noble Cinque, who recently guest-starred on ER as a noble Nigerian torture victim who becomes . . . a janitor.
The US/Chiang Kai-shek Criminal Acts Exhibition Hall (so goes the catchy title) includes cells and torture chambers.
stoon 1. to decorate a human victim with cigarette burns as a means of torture.