Word: dynamos
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...Zirinsky may not have those physical characteristics (she stands 5 ft. 1 1/2 in. in her sneakers), but she's got the rest down cold. In fact, when Film Director James Brooks needed a model for Holly Hunter's role in Broadcast News, he chose the 36-year-old dynamo. Last week Zirinsky was -- where else? -- in the heat of the action down on the Democratic Convention floor plotting stories, gathering information and arranging interviews with Correspondent Ed Bradley. A night in the real life of a floor producer...
...forces at work within the planet's mantle, the thick layer of rock that stretches from the core to within an average of 30 miles of the surface. The behavior of the mantle seems to be determined by the core. The molten center also acts as an electromagnetic dynamo, creating the magnetic field that shields earth from the high-energy particles that stream from...
Chirac, by contrast, is such a dynamo that his handlers have tried to tone down his hard-charging image with a poster bearing the slogan COURAGE -- THAT'S CHIRAC and showing an ostensibly relaxed Premier dressed in a V-neck sweater. Moreover, he commands the formidable political machinery of the neo- Gaullist Rally for the Republic Party, which expects to spend $25 million on the campaign. Chirac is running on his record as Premier for the past two years, claiming that his government has cut unemployment rolls by 130,000, boosted economic output...
...unplugs the phone, sits on her bed and has a good cry: heaving shoulders, racking sobs, a face contorted into a bruised fist, a doll in tears because no one will buy her. Is this person in control? Perfectly. There is no wasted motion or emotion in this petite dynamo. Jane has simply, in the words of the actress who portrays her, "penciled in times...
...commemoration of all she has given and, lately, received, the world's top singer-dancer-comedian-songwriter-actress-author-survivor-thriv er-dynamo- divinity deserves some special prize. The Tony isn't tony enough. The Nobel Prize wouldn't be noble enough. And so to you, Bette Midler, the academy of your admirers is pleased to present its Life Achievement Award for the body of your work. And the work of your body...