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...taxonomic term here, not evaluative. The only people laughing at Lewis' first film released since 1970 are in the movie-supporting players earning their keep by pampering the star-director-screenwriter. Jer, 55, is still the goony kid from the '50s, talking while eating a doughnut, parading in drag, leading a children's crusade through a Florida shopping mall. Hardly Working has grossed $10 million at the box office, in part because parents are taking tots to see "the original Jerk." They find themselves attending not a revival but a requiem...
...favorable odds, Harvard still couldn't seem to do anything right at first. Playing an aggressive full-court press, the cagers repeatedly extracted the ball from a bewildered Williams offense, brought it down the court, and failed to convert into buckets. Williams' 1-3-1 zone left a large doughnut hole inside the key, which a timid Crimson offense refused to penetrate, opting instead for wild outside shots...
...Shanghai English teacher, Wang came to the U.S. in 1945 to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard. Three years later, at age 28, he invented the magnetic core, a tiny, doughnut-shaped data storage element that remained the key to computer memory technology for more than 20 years until it was replaced by sophisticated semiconductor equipment in the late 1960s. Wang started his company in a dingy room above an electrical fixtures store on Boston's Columbus Avenue. The firm engineered one-of-a-kind products to fill special customer needs. One result was the first digital...
...three years ago, could top 5 million tons this year. And if nearly 1 billion Chinese take a liking to hamburger buns or Danish, wheat exports could soar. The only problem may be that many people will complain that they are hungry again an hour after eating a jelly doughnut...
...latest issue of the official mag azine China Reconstructs, Maritime Historian Fang Zhongpu purports to solve the puzzle. His prime evidence: a 35-kg (80-lb.) doughnut-shaped stone discovered in 1972 off Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Fang says that the stone is a clear sign of a pre-Columbian Chinese visitation, and he cites the testimony of some American scientists to back...