Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Costner knows his strengths and limitations. "I can't fix my car," he says, "though I play characters who can. I can't work my computer. I don't understand certain financial things, though I'm really good with the bottom line. I flunked geometry twice. My mind just doesn't work like that. But I'm completely comfortable in this medium. I put in hard days, but I love every bit of it." He's also sensitive about what he considers his own physical limitations. "I don't think of myself as classically handsome. I've been told that...
...fix it if it's not broken yet--advice Phillips wishes the football team would have followed last fall...
...discuss the universe, and has been dubbed "Starlady Sandra" by the tabloids. But recognition does not satisfy her, and neither does her husband Matthew, an ambitious lawyer and tepid bedmate ("What's good enough for missionaries is good enough for me"). So Sandra does what any woman in her fix would do: she runs off with Jack Stubbs, the trumpet player in a ragtag band called the Citronella Jumpers...
...doctorates in geology-paleontology and biology, confesses that she learned to cook only after marrying Italian- American Victor Hazan in 1955. It was a struggle at first. After working as a biological researcher at New York City's Guggenheim Foundation by day, she would rush home each night to fix dinner. American supermarkets shocked her: "The food was dead, wrapped in plastic coffins." She became a professional cook by accident in 1969, when friends in a Chinese cooking class asked for Italian recipes. (Her fame was sealed by Claiborne, who came to lunch one day and went home raving...
...depth report. Nor do Washington watchers detect any ground swell of enthusiasm for efforts to roll back the 1984 legislation that deregulated the industry. Says a Senate staffer who keeps a close watch on cable developments: "There's a feeling of 'If it ain't broke, don't fix...