Word: eye
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Americans in 1995 kept a wary, ambivalent eye on both Clinton and Gingrich, the famous fraternal twins of American power, yin and yang of the Baby Boom, polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue. A generation or two ago, leaders were father figures. For better and for worse, Clinton and Gingrich--powerful yet indefinably immature--give off a bright, undisciplined energy, a vibration of adolescent recklessness...
...icon of the information age. He wrote a best-selling book, The Road Ahead (Viking; $29.95), and hawked it on talk shows from David Frost to David Letterman. He commandeered the world press to promote the launch of Windows 95. He defied government probes of his finger-in-the-eye business practices, even as he was leveraging his control of computer software to edge his way into banking, retailing, interactive television and Hollywood. His net worth ballooned to nearly $15 billion, making him the richest self-made man on the planet...
...DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS The free-lance private eye's lot was never a happy one--ask Philip Marlowe. But he didn't have to fight racism while trying to fight crime. Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), a black man, does. And it grants Carl Franklin's cool, crisp adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel (set in classic noirland, '40s L.A.) the edge, weight and revitalizing relevance long needed by a genre often made limply nostalgic...
Schulhof, a physicist with a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, rose through the technical ranks of Sony's U.S. operations, where he caught the eye of Morita. "From the beginning, Mr. Morita and Mr. Ohga took a liking to me," Schulhof proudly recalls. For 20 years "there was a chemistry that worked. I talked to Mr. Ohga at least once a day and Mr. Morita once every three days. We operated in a collegial fashion. There was almost nothing in writing...
CINEMA CRITIC RICHARD SCHICKEL SEEMS eloquently unable to enjoy the hazards of adult reality: nothing is ever the same. Even 007 [CINEMA, Nov. 27] keeps growing beyond recognition. However, for such a traumatic experience, there is instant relief: rent one of the old Bond movies. For adults only: go "eye" Bond's latest exhilarating moments of "golden," unpretentious entertainment. DAG WAAGNES Sandefjord, Norway...