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Andrew Cunanan thought Pulp Fiction was the best movie ever made. A friend remembers how he was "all animated and yelling" when he saw the film at its San Diego premiere, finding particular delight in the scene where a man gets his head inadvertently blown off in the back of a car. It is thus a minor enigma, one of the many Cunanan has left behind, whether his final, apparently desperate act was also an attempted coup de theatre, in which the fugitive of a thousand faces--seen everywhere and nowhere--tries to destroy the only one he has left...
...time talking about or dreaming about the millennium to come; we've always been a practical people dealing with the issues of life. We're doing today's job in the best way we know how." From the beginning, the Saints' millennial strain was modulated by a delight in the economic nitty-gritty. Of some 112 revelations received by the first Prophet and President of the church, Joseph Smith, 88 explicitly address fiscal matters. And although the faithful believe the "End Times" could begin shortly, their actual date is (to humankind) indefinite, and certain key signs and portents have...
Combs: I was middle class growing up. I grew up [in Harlem until age 12, in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., afterward] with white kids and Chinese kids. I grew up listening to Ozzy Osbourne and Rapper's Delight...
...East, we moved to the Southwest 3 1/2 years ago. We're not merely living in Texas, we're really living. The values and standards set by the Bible Belt and the Rodeo Belt show us that the Beltway is a profanity. And even when this living delight ends, my ashes are not going back East! DICK GRAY New Braunfels, Texas
...viewers decide whether Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen's long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle. It also provides a field day for some wonderful actors too little seen on this side of the Atlantic. Sher is a wily, puckish delight; and Dame Judi, her face clamped in anguish, radiates the stern ecstasy of grief. This queen of English understatement embodies Victoria's belief: that mourning is the only way survivors can consummate their love for the dead...