Word: finely
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Although Knowles is a scientist in both his academic interest and his love of meticulousness, he also has a deep personal connection to the fine arts...
...been stressful," Tarses acknowledged, scrunched into a leather chair behind the desk in her spartan temporary office at ABC headquarters in New York City. After a siege of near all-nighters to finalize the fall schedule, the fine-boned, soft-spoken programmer was clearly tired, not to say beleaguered. "I don't want to seem self-pitying. But it seems to me that rarely has a week gone by since I've taken the job that I haven't been attacked for one thing or another somewhere in the press. There are a lot of people bent on seeing...
...that's precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in Addicted to Love, and a fine--but not entirely uninteresting--mess they have on their hands. It offers us two voyeurs, one male and moony (Matthew Broderick's Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan's Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura...
There is a secret at the heart of all John Fogerty's songs, an unbroken connection to the magic and mystery in the American musical past that conjoins Delta blues and garage bands, urban riffs and pedal steel, folklore and the Brill Building. You can find its point of fine convergence in the fierceness of Fogerty's singing, the grace of his imagination, the implacable drive of his spirit. He can do what only the greatest American songwriters can: make music that sounds, even when you first hear it, as if you've known it forever. Music that's more...
...opposing a cigarette tax, you could also argue that a reduction of smokers would cut revenues through reduced income-tax payments from tobacco farmers and the merchants who sell cigarettes (who also contribute state sales tax, of course, plus an occasional fine for selling cigarettes to minors), as well as the custodians who pick up all those cigarette butts and might otherwise have so little to pick up that they would end up on welfare...