Word: brightly
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...line between a programming genius and someone headed out the door for a station manager's job in Reno is, of course, notoriously indistinct. And Littlefield has had his share of bad ideas (remember Madman of the People?). Kevin Bright, an executive producer of Friends, recalls that Littlefield early on thought the series needed an older regular to counterbalance the twentysomething stars. The producers disagreed. "Another network executive might have said, 'No! I want this older character.' But Warren trusted our instincts and went with...
...popular -- by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. His new album, 'Mercury Falling,' draws on country, gospel and even Celtic music to create smooth, genre-blending, articulate pop. "It is another bright entry into what has proved to be his brilliant career as a solo artist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "'Mercury Falling' stands out as his most consistently entertaining effort. The lyrics are smart but not self-consciously cerebral. These are songs that hit a little harder than the typical...
...rink so different from Bright Hockey Center, in an area so different, in a city so far away and so much colder, with the odds so stacked against the Crimson, everyone gossiped how easy it would have been to fold...
...moralist-at-large backing Lamar Alexander, has even predicted a third-party effort if Buchanan is the nominee. What Gingrich is hearing from many of the influential G.O.P. freshmen, however, is that the Buchanan crowd is a force that must be reckoned with. "It's not a real bright idea for some of the more senior Republicans around here to be calling this group extremists," says Representative Joe Scarborough of Florida's Dixie-oriented Panhandle. "We can either ignore Buchanan's message and face the consequences or acknowledge the potency of his ideas...
...movies, as commentators of every political stripe have noted, are a glamorous mirror of society. Growing up, we all find ourselves, in part, by finding aspects of ourselves onscreen. Gays didn't. "You feel like a ghost," essayist Susie Bright (author of Sexwise) says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British...