Word: desmond
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...right, Mr. DeMille," says aging actress Norma Desmond, played by aging actress Gloria Swanson, as she leans seductively into the camera in the final scene of the 1950 film classic Sunset Boulevard. "I'm ready for my close-up." If Norma were working in today's high-definition television (HDTV), she would be inching away from that camera...
Should a Nobel Peace Prize winner really be the cause of fights on cable television? JON STEWART exposed his audience to the seamy underside of talk-show guest booking last week, complaining on The Daily Show that an interview with Desmond Tutu had been canceled because the South African Archbishop had agreed to appear on MSNBC's Hardball first. "I guess they are playing--what's the word I'm looking for?--hardball," Stewart said. Hardball host Chris Matthews rejoined on the air that if Stewart appears on Matthews' show, Tutu can do The Daily Show. Great. Tutu sits through...
...Desmond Bryant—a 6’6, 225 pound recruit from North Carolina—got an offer from Duke, but passed it up in favor of the Crimson. And I know that Duke may not be what one would consider a “power program,” but it’s an ACC school that has the TV contracts that could help a player springboard into national exposure...
...cell phones, the Internet, and Teflon. Instead of making life-saving drugs a lucrative business venture, the government should be the one funding in the first place so that patents won't be an issue. And people take way too many drugs. Lay off. Maurna Desmond Los Angeles, Calif...
...scientists--electrical-engineering professor William Hunt and chemistry doctoral candidate Desmond Stubbs--fused microelectronics and biotechnology to create a device that not only detects very small amounts of a substance but can also differentiate between one chemical and another. "I had seen some of the existing electronic noses and knew they weren't chemically specific, so I knew I had to figure out a way to get biotechnology onto a chip," says Hunt...