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Apocalypse Now went so far overbudget that Francis Ford Coppola had to mortgage his house. Titanic's tab was so big two studios had to go dutch. And don't get me started on Waterworld. But no story factory in recent memory has gotten less bang for its buck (no pun intended, of course) than the White House, in this, its ongoing remake...
...yourself more pleasure for the dollar--a little more bang for your buck," the emcee said, cajoling two customers into a frenzied bidding...
...turned to the supposedly bug-free Eudora from Qualcomm. Now, on Friday, reports emerge that Eudora, too, can be transformed into a Trojan horse -- that hackers can write a nasty little Java Script program and disguise it as an HTML link. You click on the link and, in theory, bang goes your hard drive. What's a self-respecting e-mailer...
...used to be you could bang on the door and tell him he'd never amount to anything if he didn't pull himself away from that garbage, but now you've lost that...
McPhee, whom this reviewer has known for 40 years, is the most methodical of intuitive writers, or the most intuitive of methodicals. Intuition tells him to bang a gong from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners...