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...comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently moved next door. These people talk funny; they don't socialize; they probably smell bad. So Ray and his friends will just, oh, break into...
...were a serious environmental hazard at parties, the way bullfight bores had been three decades before, sports-car bores were a bit after that and college-tuition bores are now. Some self-pleased gasbag was always bombinating lengthily about his new airtight Jotul 118 or Vermont Castings Defiant or Fisher Papa Bear. (Yes, suburban trendies, from South Carolina to north of Boston, would actually buy, and get all gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological wonder, the braggart would assure other wood burners waiting their turn...
...love, she developed an eclectic repertoire: from Russian fish soup to French vegetable soup with white wine, from Southern "transparent pie" -- made with quince jelly -- to an opaque Dutch apple pudding. The icing on the cake is a foreword by the incomparable food writer M.F.K. Fisher, the author's godmother...
...Laura G. Fisher of Business School Admissions said the B-School accepted Karossy as "part of a long tradition at HBS." According to Fisher, 16 percent of B-School students are foreign, and Karossy is one of two students from the Eastern Bloc...
...that might imply you'd do it again and that encourages subsequent hostage taking." Payment of ransom, whether in cash or weapons and however disguised, does precisely that. On the other hand, a one- shot concession that in its nature could not be repeated would be less dangerous. Roger Fisher, who has advised the Government in previous hostage situations, says that the concession, if possible, ought to be something to which the adversary would have a legitimate claim if it had never taken any hostages...