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Gamy Sexuality. Black claims that there is "a lot of Marilyn Monroe in me," but she disdains the traditional glamorizing process of Hollywood-all the makeup and surgery that can camouflage every flaw. She has capitalized on her defects as well as her virtues. Her image is to look scruffy and a little disassembled. Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness. Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors...
...committee seemed willing to forget the past-the man could, after all, change in the job-until the environmentalists found a serious flaw in Hathaway's case. His backers had widely distributed to Congress and the press a document listing the Governor's environmental accomplishments back home. Embarrassingly, of 23 such "achievements," the private Environmental Defense Fund discovered that most had either been forced on Wyoming by the Federal Government or were actually designed to weaken existing laws. Supporters of Hathaway also claimed that 49 Governors backed his nomination; under scrutiny, only 35 such endorsements turned...
Readers of the current Scientific American are informed of several shattering discoveries. Among them: a fatal flaw in Einstein's special theory of relativity, a motor that runs on psychic energy, and a page from Leonardo Da Vinci's newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools...
This is not necessarily a flaw. L'Avventura seemed initially to be about the search for a woman lost on an island. Then Antonioni -deliberately and to much controversy-abandoned this theme in favor of another, deeper one, a portrait of a whole inert society. In The Passenger, he lets go of the thriller elements midway and starts to concentrate on the growing relationship between Locke and a young tourist (Maria Schneider). But the change of focus does not deepen the picture as it did in L'Avventura. Instead, it diverts it while saying nothing new about Locke...
...early this month that it was inaccurate in, of all places, the ninth digit -still quite serviceable for run-of-the-mill computer wizardry, but not the very best the machine was fully capable of. Some infinitesimally remote calculation was slipping ever so slightly out of its grasp. The flaw is so minuscule a problem that most routine users probably would not discover it unless they were weighing electrons, and the Harvard computer is due to be corrected shortly. What, in plain language, is the matter? "I could explain the whole problem to you," said an assistant manager...