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...college professor who ran the National Security Council for Clinton and is the President's choice to run the CIA. Alexis is Alexis Herman, the White House aide and longtime Democratic Party operative whom Clinton tapped to be Secretary of Labor. A former aide to Henry Kissinger, Lake is bookish and white. An ally of the late Ron Brown, Herman is glamorous and black. He's diplomacy and Mount Holyoke College; she's civil rights and Mobile, Alabama. On camera, where Lake can be quirky and anxious, Herman is cool and unflappable. And so it is all the more remarkable...
Penned by Erich Segal '58 and later expanded into a novel, "Love Story" chronicles the tragic romance between straight-laced Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett IV, played by Ryan O'Neal, and bohemian, bookish Radcliffe undergraduate Jenny Cavilleri, played by Ali McGraw...
Wallace has the nuts-and-bolts romanticism of a crackpot inventor; Gromit, a bookish sort, gets his friend out of wild scrapes when not reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute...
...chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American Brit, against Mike, a McDonald's-loving Missouri jock -- and then wait for the inevitable clashes...
...together for the All-Star Game. The "Tornado," Hideo Nomo, touched down, of course, and everyone was eager to see the Dodgers' Japanese rookie with the outrageous windup and the diabolical fork ball. But while Nomo was tailed by 150 Japanese journalists and almost as many American ones, a bookish-looking Atlanta Brave went largely unnoticed, even though Greg Maddux is the best pitcher of this generation. That's partly the failing of the baseball media, but then Major League Baseball has never done much to promote its players for fear it might drive up salaries. So instead of Greg...