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...front of us waits five seconds before moving at a newly green traffic light, or as we wring our hands when someone (heaven forbid) has checked their inbox but has not responded to our messages. We have become so paranoid about physical space that we screen calls. We finger-stalk. We struggle to remember password after password, half-recognizing that our information--our data, our ideas--could suddenly vanish if either we or our computers have a lapse in memory...
...latest British invasion has come in the form of Joseph Fiennes, another actor in the fine family first introduced to us by Ralph of The English Patient fame. Harvey Weinstein, the founder of Miramax, definitely has his finger in the Oscar punch bowl again this year with Shakespeare in Love, one of the two films that prominently feature Fiennes--Joseph, that is. The other film is Elizabeth, another indie film with strong performances from all the players...
...immediate result was that there was a lot of name-calling, finger-pointing, nasty recrimination and gnashing of teeth," he said...
After a four-goal, second period deluge by the Crimson women, the goal judge developed an itchy trigger finger. During a third-period power play, sophomore right wing Tammy Shewchuk fired a shot on goal that startled a goal judge into lighting the lamp just as it left her stick. The shot never actually went in. Shewchuk finished with one goal and four assists. The erroneous signal proved only to be a grim reminder of the Crimson's dominance in the final round of the Beanpot...
...points a finger at Chili Palmer, pulls a pretend trigger and growls, "Bang, you dead. But you don't know when, do you?" Nah, but Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those...