Word: eggheads
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...discriminatory anti-elf and -giant policies of the family of Prince Charmont (Hugh Dancy). What she wants at first is not love but to free herself of a fairy's curse that forces her to be obedient. In The Prince & Me (what, The Prince & I would have been too egghead-y?), Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) is a workaholic soon-to-be medical student who rolls her eyes at friends rushing to get their M.R.S. degrees. When she falls for Eddie (Luke Mably), a rakish-but-sweet exchange student who turns out to be Danish Crown Prince Edvard, the prospect...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN ELEGANT EGGHEAD...
...take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space program hasn't had a leading role since James Bond went into orbit in Moonraker. But in June a small, unmanned pod named Beagle 2 (after Charles Darwin's famous ship) has a chance to change all that. Masterminded by Professor Colin Pillinger, an eccentric and exuberant...
...short, a totally unsnobby egghead who just happens to have a luminous, envelopingly warm tone and enough technique for any two ordinary pianists. Liebermann, whose Second Concerto he played at Carnegie Hall earlier this year, calls him "one of the greatest intellects, maybe the greatest, that I know of among performers." But Hough begs to differ, at least a little bit: "If that means I have a desire to understand music from the mind as well as from the heart, then I'm happy with the term, but I can't avoid the suspicion that many of the greatest composers...
...next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will not be on the Oprah Winfrey Show because he is seemingly uncomfortable and conflicted about being chosen as a book-club selection. It is never my intention to make anyone uncomfortable or to cause anyone conflict." (Translation: Take that, egghead.) Franzen apologized, to no avail. Now his publisher is the one cringing...