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What I enjoyed most about my conversations with John Campbell was that they hardly existed. We spoke--at the post office, at the village store, whenever he pulled over to the curb on his bike--two, three times a month. But we said very little. In the still, blank autumn afternoons like these, our silence abetted the season. One of us would open with some typically male, moderately hearty greeting; the other would follow with an observation about essentially nothing, like the lowering sky; the other would grunt or nod; John would pedal away, and that would be that...
Seven or eight weeks before, I'd read in the Washington Post that on a single autumn Monday, 2,500 homing pigeons, competing in two completely different races in Virginia and Pennsylvania, had vanished into--well, into thin air. Some people, it almost goes without saying, blamed El Nino. Some people speculated that cellular phone activity had interfered with the electromagnetic fields that pigeons use to help them navigate. That theory led me to another theory: people who take great pleasure in shouting into their cellular phones as they walk down the street had finally shouted loudly enough to scare...
...Pixar was on to a new set of enigmas: how to render photo-realistic hair and skin, how to make fabric crumple with verisimilitude when the character wearing it moves. "Look at how stunningly beautiful this is," says Lasseter, standing in the dirt outside the studio, holding a colorful autumn leaf up to the brilliant midday sun. "Look at the incredible detail. It's spectacular. It's a whole new world you can walk in." Why? Lasseter smiles as broadly as a child, dreaming, no doubt, of movie fantasies to come. "Because...
...Republicans have a 21-to-16 majority, just three defectors to the Democratic side would be enough to defeat an impeachment before it reached the full House. The chastening '98 election has created a new atmosphere on the committee. California freshman Jim Rogan saw his 15% lead in the autumn polls drop to almost nothing on Nov. 3. That brush with oblivion he blames in part on the fact that his position on the Judiciary Committee required him to second very publicly his party's pro-impeachment line. Two other G.O.P. members who could vote with the Democrats are Mary...
...many people have to go see them? That's the question that has movie solons tugging at their gray beards and wondering exactly how many teenage boys--and the women who love them--can pack a movie house on an autumn weekend. The answer: $39.4 million worth. That's how much money Sandler's wan The Waterboy earned in its first weekend--a record for any non-summer three-day opening, and proof indeed that, while Oprah Winfrey may not be a film star, Adam Sandler surely is. This veteran of Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun...