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...also does porn work. How can this lost soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked by a Greek chorus that's all singing, all dancing and so Yiddish you could plotz. "I see catastrophe," one chorus member darkly intones. "Worse--I see lawyers...
When we think of brilliance we see Einstein, deep-eyed, woolly haired, a thinking machine with skin and mismatched socks. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. This is where the marshmallows come in. It seems that the ability to delay gratification is a master skill, a triumph of the reasoning brain over the impulsive one. It is a sign, in short, of emotional intelligence. And it doesn't show up on an IQ test...
...Lighting. Why does almost every dorm room have a useless, ugly fluorescent light inside? Too weak for reading and often sporadic in response to the switch, these lights only cast rooms into a dim gloom. The University should end the charade of these lights--install real ones or simply tell incoming first-years to buy a halogen torchiere...
...scene occurred in a dim hallway, deep inside Dillon Field House, far away from any madding crowd. The cheers and the boos had given way to just this--a whisper...
...Democrats' dim chances to recapture the Senate next year faded even more when Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, 76, one of the chamber's most liberal members, said he would retire at the end of his current term. He becomes the seventh Demo crat to announce he will step down, a number that now endangers the Democrats' ability even to retain enough seats to sustain a filibuster...