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...movie for 21 months, is almost never seen at parties or restaurants, and has very few friends in Hollywood. On taping days, he lives on little more than milk and honey, or the turkey noodle soup that he carries in a flask everywhere he goes-his life is awash in turkey noodle soup. "I mustn't eat a full meal before taping because I'll be sluggish," he says, "and it'll throw my timing...
...usual hotel furniture, plus a humming array of several hundred thousand dollars worth of electronic equipment, including a radio-telephone hookup to the U.S. mainland and telephone scramblers to prevent his phone conversations from being bugged. The roof bristles with antennas. At night all eleven of Hughes' balconies are awash with harsh floodlights. Closed-circuit TV cameras lean out from the building's walls, scanning for intruders. Uniformed guards watch the elevators. Recently the hotel applied fresh paint to all of its fire doors on the emergency stairwell-except on the ninth floor; apparently workmen were not allowed there...
...total responsive environment," the manufacturer calls it. That is the way one company describes its new three-level baby crib equipped with toys to grasp and pull, sand timers to watch, wheels to spin, voice-activated mobiles and sound tapes, plus a tank awash with live fish. According to the developers and to some child psychologists who have endorsed the environmental crib, almost every baby needs such a scientifically engineered corral for sleep and play. Parents who prefer the traditional, simple "containment crib," it has been argued, may end up with a child who is not too bright...
...find criticism a duty, an outlet for energy." When Hamilton's first letter of proposal to Hermia arrives, Eliza wants to answer it herself. When a second comes, she opens it and attempts to hide it. Like her predecessors in earlier books, Eliza is not only shameless, but awash with grandly rhetorical self-pity: "Years of care, of asking little for myself and accepting less, in order to save the family home...
...next moment was magic. The few hundred people in the audience were smiling encouragement, clapping loud and hard. They were, it was true, responding to a flashing APPLAUSE sign, but who cared? Awash in the sound, I was transported into indescribable ecstasy. Instantly I understood what it felt like to be Dick Cavett or any other entertainer: not a few hundred but countless millions of unfamiliar humans seemed to be lavishing affection and approval, yielding themselves totally to my presence. Anxiety fled. I announced that I had come to play Dick Cavett's role. Then, peering squarely into the wrong...