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...BONDED WITH MADONNA: Asked to appear in a Material Girl-produced film about a young pyromaniac, Stiles took an informal meeting with her longtime feminist influence. "She's very assertive, and nobody's bossing her around," the younger actress says, mimicking Madonna's screwy new British accent. "I've always kind of tried to emulate that...
...crude culture of her birthplace). The Sargents were not rich, but they moved from one roost to another--Rome, Paris, Nice, Munich, Venice, the Austrian Tyrol--for the first 18 years of their son's life. All he retained of America was his passport and some traces of accent; yet he held onto both until his death. Sargent's relation to America was neither resentful nor yearning, as it is with so many expatriates. He was a cosmopolitan, with the perfect adaptability of that type. His homeland was his talent...
...would appear on the doorstep of fellow mathematicians without warning--a frail, disheveled, elderly man, hopped up on amphetamines and wearing a ratty raincoat--and announce, in a thick Hungarian accent, "My mind is open." For a day, or a week or a month, the man or woman who answered the knock would have to take nonstop care of this helpless guest who couldn't figure out how to cut a grapefruit or wash his underwear--and in return would be permitted the exhausting, exhilarating experience of following the thought processes of Paul Erdos, the most prolific and arguably...
...doctrine of "mutually assured destruction," which would shape U.S. strategy for the next two decades. Von Neumann also became an icon of the cold war. Disabled with pancreatic cancer, he stoically continued to attend AEC meetings until his death in 1957. The wheelchair-bound scientist with the Hungarian accent who mathematically analyzed doomsday is said to have been a model for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove...
...Patrick's Day is over. Last night may have passed in a blur of Guinness and green but today's St. Patty's festivities pale next to the alcohol binges of old. Local pub proprietors and bartenders-most from the Emerald Isle and with the accent to prove it-kept their preparations minimal for America's most notorious Irish holiday...