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Chatterbox has always felt that the usual way temperature records are expressed--by comparing today's temperature in Topeka to the temperature in Topeka on this same exact day in previous years--is a bit of a cheat.
Director Mike Leigh's latest film about working-class Brits "trapped in the hopelessness of modern life" (Richard Schickel, Time ) is rated a notch below his acclaimed Naked and Secrets & Lies . The premise--ex-college roommates spend a weekend together for the first time in six years--is overly "modest" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ): "[N]othing much happens, dramatically speaking," says Schickel.
According to the Journal piece, the main reason oil prices have spiked to $25 a barrel--the highest in nearly 10 years--is that there's been more compliance than usual with OPEC's current effort to cut production.
Thus, the second interesting period in German photography--the last 25 years--is almost completely omitted.