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...homogeneous. Nearly everyone is female; these are the ladies who lunch taking a movie aperitif. Inside, the audience laughs along with the gags about women's fear of aging ("If I give you one more face-lift," Dr. Rob Reiner warns Hawn, "you're gonna be able to blink your lips") that make the movie a more genteel version of the misogynistic She-Devil and Death Becomes Her. And the audience applauds when Midler, Hawn and Diane Keaton take comic revenge on their duplicitous mates. In movie theaters around the country, similar crowds registered similar approval for the movie--enough...
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a blink. On Tuesday evening, returning to their suite at the Chicago Sheraton, Dick Morris' wife Eileen McGann noticed the blinking light on their bedside phone and checked their messages. It was the close of the second day of the Democratic Convention, and the Sheraton was the center of the universe, the off-white fortress where the White House inner circle lodged and the President would soon arrive. That made it the natural place for Morris, Bill Clinton's essential campaign adviser, fidgety genius and imponderable co-author...
...usually an incremental enterprise, with most researchers toiling in the experimental thickets, trying to hack out a little clearing of enlightenment. Occasionally, however, a Darwin or Einstein comes along and with a flash of insight as blinding as a thermonuclear airburst, clears the entire landscape. Down below, ordinary scientists blink disbelievingly at their sudden ability to see from horizon to horizon. But their sense of wonder is tempered by regret. Tending your tiny patch seems like pulling weeds compared with such intellectual clear cutting...
...their property to see if the deer were still within view. They were, grazing in the shadows as the sun began sinking into Long Island's Great South Bay behind them. The Atlantic, meanwhile, was turning violet in the gathering dusk, the lights of fishing boats just beginning to blink. Then, as the Hesters gazed at the small wonder, two fireballs burst out of the sky to the southeast. The deer scattered...
Even as we blink back the tears, we begin to wonder about this mysterious Cable Guy and his passion for telecommunications. His name--Ernie Douglas, though his friends call him Chip--aren't Ernie and Chip Douglas characters from "My Three Sons?" Indeed they are, though if this was your first sign that there's trouble afoot, you, too, should probably seek therapy...