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...Keefe is one of several Harvard Lampoon editors who remembers Tommy's Lunch with a fond sigh. They liked Tommy's Lunch because "the food was expensive and bad and they yelled at you. It was a good place for masochists," O'Keefe said...
Young has fond memories of the beauty and silence that carried across the city after the Blizzard of '78. "It made us feel very dependent on nature's willingness to keep us here," he says...
...woods outside Belfast, a black British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything...
...subject of some truly wild speculation. "The list of candidates," says Rocky Kolb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, "depends on whether or not you believe in a WYSIWYG universe." WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get" (dark-matter aficionados are inordinately fond of acronyms). WYSIWYG types like to assume that dark matter is most likely made up of the same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic than planet-like objects that are bigger than Jupiter...
...movie gives not a clue. Jack Nicholson looks eerily like his subject, and he has the abrupt gestures and staccato voice of a man who overcomes lack of eloquence by force of will. But director Danny DeVito, who also plays Hoffa's closest ally, gets way too fond of slo-mo shots and swooping cameras; instead of a hard-edge portrait, we get painting on velvet. It's epic-style vamping around the void of epic character...