Word: chiclets
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...doorstep begging for jobs. Working as a male host still carries seedy connotations, but the recession has led them to seek out unusual career paths. Katsumasa Tanaka, 26, was a salaried worker at an auto-parts company in Osaka until earlier this year. The slender six-footer with Chiclet teeth came to Tokyo with dreams of singing and acting. After auditioning for a role in a movie about male hosts, he decided he could be one himself. Though top hosts can earn well into six figures, Tanaka is happy with $3,000 a month and an audition-friendly schedule...
...palm and his pocket. The pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses a thumbwheel to scroll through a few messages and then slips it back into its case. Occasionally, he pokes out a quick message on the device's Chiclet-size keys. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click. It's almost a Macarena rhythm. 1-2-3-4-5. Lou Gerstner, the CEO of IBM, sends Levin a congratulatory e-mail. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click...
...worked because Carrey performed self-scrutiny that amounted to a makeover. The Chiclet festival of his smile is often used to undercut an opponent or close the sale of a gag. Here, modified by a few watts, it is a beacon of innocence, vulnerability. Except for Mom and a couple of wives, has anyone before thought of the Carrey face as beautiful? In this film it surely is. That's star quality and craft in tandem, the gift of recapturing innocence even as the movie recaptures the ability of the best old Hollywood films to work as metaphor and magic...
...Junior's other problems are more visible. Dealers and users alike complain about its toylike appearance, its Chiclet-shaped keys, the built-in design barriers that make it difficult to expand the machine's memory or attach extra disc drives. But its biggest drawback has been price. In the market for home computers, where most machines sell for under $300, even the stripped-down $669 version of the PCjr seems overpriced. "For its level of performance," says William Bowman, chairman of Spinnaker, a leading software publisher, "it is simply the most expensive machine on the market." Although...
...parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems all but inspired...