Word: bulb
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GINIA BELLAFANTE'S PAEAN TO THE PRESENT Hollywood crop of young actors, ``Generation X-Cellent'' [Cinema, Feb. 27], devastatingly illustrates the debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering...
GINNY LUI SITS UNDER A 100-WATT light bulb, studying spoons. The spoons have gone through eight full cycles in one or another of a battery of 20 dishwashers; Lui's task is to examine each one for telltale signs of dirt. If she detects a speck, she must then decide just what sort of speck she has spotted. Is it gritty? Is it "medium soil" or "heavy soil"? When she runs through all the spoons, Lui turns to plates and cups and knives and glasses that have been emptied from the dishwashers, making the same inspections and rendering...
...President Clinton, and another with a pistol to cult murderer Charles Manson. Authorities had issued a warrant for Shelby's arrest after he allegedly sent President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore letters on Dec. 7 threatening to kill them. The bomb intended for Clinton contained a light bulb filled with explosives, designed to go off when it was used, The Salt Lake Tribune reported, citing an anonymous police officer.In a second incident, police wrestled down William C. Phillips, also 29, after spotting him Wednesday night in Trexlertown, Pa., standing with a handgun along Clinton's motorcade route...
...stare at the glorified light bulb known as a monitor for only so long before the eye muscles begin to retaliate. And therefore, when people ask me for advice on the purchase of a new computer, I usually emphasize that the monitor they choose be ergonomically sound...
...expect to see the most salient manifestation of the rainy season's onslaught, a mass epidemic of gloom-induced depression, arriving soon. This phenomenon is the result of individuals who spent their summer basking on the beach suddenly finding their primary source of light reduced to a $2.95 halogen bulb...