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...offer to sample the cuisine on an offshore rig was the sort of thing no self-respecting food buff could refuse. "We hear you're interested in good food," ran the letter from executives of Keydril, the Houston-based company that contracts, staffs and operates ten exploration drilling rigs for oil companies around the world. "Come and have lunch with us. We think you'll be surprised." To an intrepid eater who had tried to get aboard a rig for years, the invitation was irresistible, because food on offshore rigs is legendary for both quantity and quality. Meals have long...
...masseur and greets her naked without a second thought. She, meeting her idol for the first time, takes some time before letting Jason know that she has not come to rub him down. When he finds out, he embarassingly says, "I don't normally greet people in the buff...
Ronald Reagan has never been a space buff, the kind of fellow who loves to talk gadgetry and hankers to go weightless. He does not know that much about the byways of the solar system. But his sense of American pride has been almost faultless. He has understood intuitively that people must have a challenge that takes them out of the despair that crowds every day. There must be a new frontier beckoning, promising some new hope. He even sees space as a way, in his words, "to render nuclear weapons obsolete." But his proposal to build and perhaps share...
...should I say, cork, glass and sediment, because, as every wine buff knows, le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive...
Murdoch is the first to admit that he knows little about television or movie production. He does not even watch much television. He catches the news, and on Sundays maybe 60 Minutes and Murder, She Wrote. Murdoch is no film buff, either, though he recalls liking Fox's summer hit Cocoon and Universal's comedy Back to the Future. But he observes that the video business seems to be "much like publishing, where you have to be able to motivate the creative people while keeping enough order to do good business." In the process of imposing his order...