Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noisy, rowdy affair better suited to the marketplace than the library. But Tisdale tacks this argument on at the end of her piece. She argues for silence as an antidote to the undemocratic nature of crass commercialism, which is embodied by the marketplace. This is the truly offensive bit of the piece because democracy cannot be silent...
...child--an act that would amount to creating the clone just to kill it. But it's hard to argue against the idea of a family's loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing this are not easy to argue," says John Fletcher, former ethicist...
After lunch last week, Kasparov ran into the rest of the Deep Blue team in the lobby of his midtown hotel. Hands were shaken all around, but the smiles seemed a bit strained. There will be lots of emotion on both sides of the board come May 3. Everyone involved knows the match will make history, whichever way it goes. Last year's virgin Deep Blue campaign brought chess its widest audience since the Fischer-Spassky cold war match in 1972. "Chess is of secondary importance to the wider audience," says Kasparov, who nonetheless hopes to launch a chess-themed...
...Stern is certainly not hidden in Private Parts, which is a comparatively straightforward telling of his struggle to succeed in broadcasting. Stern likens the film to Rocky and claims preview audiences have said Private Parts will inspire them to "follow their dreams," a reaction even Stern thinks is a bit much. But the movie shows him in a surprisingly earnest, at times sweet light; indeed, a couple of romantic scenes are so borderline sappy one wonders if Stern fears he has left himself open to being laughed at, as opposed to with (a humorist's worst nightmare). "It hasn...
...will cost. Rimes says she has no friends her age (she doesn't attend school and has a private tutor) and concedes that "it's hard for me to go out places without having people ask for an autograph." At the same time, some of her repertoire seems a bit mature for an adolescent who has yet to have her first date. On the semi-risque song My Baby, she sings, "My baby is a full-time lover ... My baby is a full-grown man." In the video for Blue, she peers out over thick-rimmed sunglasses, an image that...