Word: experts
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...greed -- a single mother, she lives modestly with her daughter India, 14 months, in a two- bedroom apartment in West Hollywood -- but her desire for publicity is another matter. "She's an expression of the entertainment industry -- fueled by fame and the desire to be a star," says an expert on new religious movements in California. "The course is the perfect disconnected religion of the '90s. It allows driven, self-absorbed, narcissistic people to continue in their ways...
They are called the video hackers, and they are quickly becoming as expert in the arcana of videotape as computer hackers are in the world of bits and bytes. In fact, many video hackers have mastered both worlds, plugging their camcorders into computers to explore a burgeoning new field known variously as computer video, desktop video or multimedia...
...military officers in the past four weeks, possibly in response to an attempted coup. For now, though he is defeated militarily and surrounded on nearly all sides by enemies, Saddam is playing a skillful game. "It's quite a brilliant strategy," says Leonard S. Spector, a Carnegie Endowment proliferation expert. Saddam is "stubborn, steadfast, holding as much stuff back as possible and giving us enough to defuse a possible attack." Such deft maneuvering means Bush has a far larger problem on his hands than anyone imagined after Iraq's defeat on Feb. 27. Until the nuclear menace is removed, Bush...
...that makes Peter Mayle something of a wonder. A devout sun worshiper and the husband of an expert amateur cook, he stumbled on a patch of Provence and left his native England without delay or regret. He did the things a lot of dreamers do: he bought language tapes, a 200-year-old house, a Citroen deux chevaux, and resolved to write a novel. But the renovation of ancient stone and the crafting of new fiction do not mix; each day workmen banished Mayle to a succession of chalky corners. So what could he do with his time except make...
...they'll talk to this curious listener. Toujours Provence contains an intricate aria of shoptalk from an expert truffle hunter who has even filmed his pig at work, "its snout moving rhythmically back and forth, ears flopping over its eyes, a single-minded earth-moving machine." A similar cameo on the history of pastis ("the milk of Provence") is written with an unpompous sense of discovery and an appropriate amount of thirst...