Word: california
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...concentrate on spiritually orphaned, Internet-lonely California is to miss the point, when mass suicides confront us in Canada, in South Korea, even in placid Switzerland. And to focus too much on the millenarian climate is to ignore the fact that even in Shakespeare, comets mark "change of times and states" (as he writes in the first sentence of Henry VI, Part 1). When prodigies break out in the fourth act of a Shakespearean tragedy, it is a sign that the time is out of joint: some fundamental link between man and his environment, as intrinsic as the link between...
...eating crow. "The key is start early. With just a few feathers a day," says the copy. "Then when the time comes to swallow the whole bird, you won't gag a bit." The American Dairy Association isn't a Comedy Central advertiser, but its sister organization, the California Milk Advisory Board, is. Let's hope it isn't a big account...
Kilmer could be the sweetest guy in the world and his looks would still exude threat. His face is a billboard for California lust, with cool blue-green eyes, sucked-in cheeks and those Halloween wax lips, ever puckered and pouty. The rock-star-satyr features surely helped land him the Morrison role, as well as those cartoon ghosts of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Top Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley...
...keeps rising on Kilmer's career. Since his one-film reign as the Caped Crusader in the 1995 hit Batman Forever, the California-bred actor has built bridges and killed a lion in Ghost and the Darkness, played a thief with marital troubles in Heat, nearly outmannerismed Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau and provided the voice of Moses for next year's Prince of Egypt, the first DreamWorks cartoon feature...
...including rapid consolidation of providers to eliminate costly duplication of resources. There was fierce competition among the survivors to cut prices and document quality, and the "payers" became the dominant force in calling the shots. Could private higher education be the next market target? DAVID L. MITCHELL Del Mar, California...