Word: chameleon
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Compaq Armada 4120T This chameleon-like $3,899 notebook can serve as a streamlined lightweight with just the basics or a hefty multimedia workstation with 4X CD-ROM drive and stereo sound...
Your article about political strategist Dick Morris was frightening with its myriad implications of no character and double-crossing [THE DEMOCRATS, Sept. 2]. You described an amorphous chameleon who fed Bill Clinton what the voters want to hear, providing the President with a platform that echoes issues back to the voter. This is scarier than Orwell's classic, 1984. Of course we want to hear that; we said it. I hope the average person can judge Clinton's character by the company he keeps. BOB WHITE Chula Vista, California...
...wants to make. After getting gentle reviews for his role in Moonlight and Valentino, he is playing the leading man, a big Hollywood star, in The Leading Man. "It's a stretch," insists Bon Jovi, who has been taking acting classes for five years. "The guy's such a chameleon." He plans to fit more movies around his music tours, but Sly Stallone can relax: Bon Jovi won't do action. "I watched too much Wile E. Coyote as a kid," he says. "I've outgrown it." SEEN & HEARD...
...chameleon-like adaptation of institutional religion to both secularation and commodification" may foreshadow a world where politics and religion are inseparable, Lawrence said in his lecture, "Global Religion(s): Hope or Hoax of the 20th Century...
What seems clear is that Milosevic -- consummate tactician, political chameleon, master of the bob and weave and, for all that, the key player on the Balkan scene -- has determined that his interest now lies in distancing himself from the Bosnian Serbs and in the process apparently trying to put the genie of Serb nationalism back into the bottle from which he coaxed it in the '80s. If the sanctions are lifted, Milosevic says, he will personally lead a campaign to deliver the Bosnian Serbs to the peace table-and will bring off a comprehensive regional peace "within six months." What...