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...possible places on my body where I wouldn't mind having a tattoo. I came up with one: my hip. Low enough that it really wouldn't be seen by too many people. ("What happens if you're pregnant someday? Won't it stretch out and look dumb?" one of my roommates asked. No, it would look cool, Seth told me when I repeated her question...
Moore's fleet is diverse in type as well as in personality. In addition to passenger elevators, it includes handicapped lifts, dumb waiters and freight elevators, which are divided into electric and hydraulic-powered mechanisms...
...course, as a member of the Beavis Generation, Peter isn't dumb and his mind isn't numbed. Like most other American children his age, he's just a cynic. So are most of his classmates at the local high school. About half of local high schoolers religiously follow the show, Peter says...
Theater-trained, he quickly found a niche in films and TV. He could play thugs with dumb cunning, in Jackson County Jail and as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, or frog consorts to movie divas (Faye Dunaway in Eyes of Laura Mars, Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Kathleen Turner in the recent House of Cards). He approached both avant-garde stage work (Ulysses in Nighttown, Sam Shepard's True West) and high movie schlock (The Betsy, Rolling Thunder) with energy and respect. "It's no mean calling," he says, "to bring fun into the afternoons...
...brand-name distinctiveness. The network's executives like to refer to it as the "Fox edge" or the "Fox attitude." It encompasses everything from the brassy bad taste of Married with Children to the tabloid grittiness of Cops. Fox has been willing to take chances on ideas too dumb to believe (Woops!, a sitcom about the survivors of nuclear holocaust) and others almost too good to be true (The Simpsons). If the young audience hooked on Fox signature hits like Beverly Hills, 90210 has had little patience for more sophisticated efforts like The Ben Stiller Show or Tribeca, well, that...