Word: finely
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...Bosley (a TV veteran best known for his roles in "Happy Days" and "Murder, She Wrote") makes a fine Cap'n Andy, jovial and kindly but with unexpected edge. The rest of the cast are generally quite good in their stock roles. Sarah Pfisterer as Magnolia demonstrates some impressive vocal chops and manages to convey the girl's radiant innocence winsomely, as well as her later, more subdued dignity as an abandoned wife. Real-life husband-wife team Kirby and Beverly Ward almost steal the show as the husband-wife comic team of Frank and Ellie who leave the show...
...human performers, fine as they are, simply can't compare to the $10 million worth of eye candy that surrounds them. And perhaps it's just as well: "Showboat" is just what its name signifies, a spectacle that's meant to dazzle and entertain--and collect admission. On these terms, this "Showboat" scores a resounding success...
What gives his narration its blood and bones, however, is the fine, boozy picture he sketches of the fishermen's bars of Gloucester, Mass., the Andrea Gail's home port. For the younger fishermen the bars are home and family in the short weeks between the monthlong voyages to the Grand Banks. They make good money, $4,000 or $5,000 a trip, and buy a lot of drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what...
...admission that the programmers fine-tuned Deep Blue to curb its aggressiveness provided even more evidence that Deep Blue was acting only as a calculator. If the program had been able to see the forest as well as cut down each tree, it would have made that adjustment itself. In the future, such adjustments by researchers between games should not be allowed. Deep Blue should be left on its own to meet the overall capability of its opponent, a much greater challenge. ROBERT J. KRAWCZYK Chicago...
...tough way to make a living, but that suits Drudge, 30, just fine. The son of a lawyer and a social worker, he worked his way into the celebrity-gossip business from the bottom--the CBS gift shop at Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...