Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be the new "Radcliffe Professors"? Katha Pollit, Nancy Chodorow, Toni Morrison, Donna Shalala, Judith Butler, Maxine Hong Kingston, Catharine MacKinnon, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Arlie Hochschild, Alice Walker. You fill in the blank. The availability of serious scholars is not the problem. Here, the Field of Dreams dictum of "if you build it, they will come" prevails...
...when you peel away the intensity, your fellow Harvard men and women are surprisingly normal. You're just as likely to bond with your peers this weekend over "Saved by the Bell" and Molly Ringwald as philosophy or politics...
...That is, until Russell Bell enters the picture. Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, A Simple Plan) plays a hard-core, motorcycle riding, nonchalant controller who's reputation precedes him. A loner from day one, Russell keeps to himself and to his job. Rumor is that he's been around, having worked in Phoenix and Denver among other places, and comes with the highest recommendations. To him, it's all just a video game. He could care less about the people in the planes; he just lines up the moving blips on his controller screen, and lands them. His lack...
...Russell's wife, Mary Bell, is played by Angelina Jolie (George Wallace, Gia). Mary seems to be a transformation of Angelina's former role in _Hackers_, only instead of computer viruses, she has a penchant for vodka. An uncanny, scantily-clad, lusty young woman, Mary has a seductive quality that is all too familiar, quite irritating as well...
...YORK: Ma Bell is turning into the Cable Guy. AT&T made a surprise bid late Thursday to break up a planned MediaOne-Comcast merger and claim MediaOne for its own. Doing so would make AT&T the largest cable company in the world (surpassing Time Warner, parent company of TIME Daily), with three quarters of its subscribers in 15 of the top 20 markets -- bringing the ex-monopoly within sight of its pre-breakup glory days. Cable lines aren't just a way for AT&T to get back into the local telephone markets wrested from them...