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Nordmann, who had known Rudolph from years ago, told authorities that the suspect's appearance has changed considerably. Sporting a beard and a ponytail and dressed in a camouflage outfit and gloves, Rudolph reportedly told Nordmann, "Look at me. I look like a hippie." He also told Nordmann that he had lost weight, pulling on his baggy trousers to demonstrate how he'd lost about six inches off his waistline. "Being on the run like this, I'm starving to death," he reportedly said, telling Nordmann he had been surviving on green beans and oatmeal...
...contrast the middle manager to the Washington television commentator. Male television performers do have to shave (or formally grow a beard). But TV performers--the talent, as they are contemptuously known by TV producers--are actually encouraged to sulk and obsess about themselves. Most of them have the perquisites of being in charge--the higher pay, the glamour, the deference of the staff--without actually being in charge. They are pampered but powerless, like children. And the producers, who have the real power but not the atmospherics, and who usually work harder, also come to think...
...fender bender on Sunset, and before I knew it there were paparazzi, because someone used his cell phone and made 300 bucks." He worries about media snoops planting recording devices in his hotel rooms--"So then you can't masturbate"--and worse. "Am I going to be combing my beard some day," he wonders, "and a little transmitter falls...
Microsoft has decided to beard the lion in his lair and ask a federal appeals court flat out if a preliminary injunction prevents it from bundling the Internet Explorer browser into Windows 98. With the release date of Windows 98 fast approaching, Microsoft can't play chicken much longer. The company's spin on the matter makes the release of Windows 98 sound like some unpredictable natural phenomenon, like the migration of caribou, that would be unnatural to prevent, and Microsoft invokes the image of a pathetic, browserless Windows that "would bear little, if any, resemblance to Windows 98." Well...
...they are not paid, and there is a sizable waiting list. This proves one of three things: either, as Gillette claims, its employees are very proud, or men are excited by all new technology, or people would rather shave at work. The manager of the program has a full beard...