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Outside the office, Sawyer is praised as unfailingly gracious and generous. When relatives of co-workers are sick, she sends cards and fruit baskets; her thank-you notes are known for their eloquence. Her own life-style, meanwhile, is far from extravagant. In the New York City apartment she occupied while single, "she preferred no decor," says a close friend. "Basically, what she had was an awful little table in the living room with a couple of small couches and some dying plants." Admits Sawyer: "I'm hopeless. I'd just as soon send out for pizza...
...Shouting "Allah Akbar!" (("God is great!")), he sent the bus hurtling down a 495-ft. ravine. The fiery plunge killed 14 people and wounded an additional 27. It was the worst single attack against Israelis since the start of the uprising. "This is a shocking disaster," Shamir said, "the fruit of a disgusting mind full of hatred...
What the Chinese people demand, such as freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, is only the fulfillment of certain rhetoric written in the constitution, itself the fruit of their struggle which brought about the present republic. This is indeed a breath-taking confrontation, a showdown of will and power. For the first time in the past forty years, the government found itself in a dilemma, unable to either repress or concede. Ultimately, as seen in the events in Beijing over the weekend, it decided to repress...
...seeds that Hong Kong activists planted last week could produce wholesome fruit. In the short run, the colony will fight harder than it might have a few weeks ago for guarantees to preserve its British-given freedoms once it rejoins China in 1997. In the long run, Hong Kong residents could find themselves championing the very same rights on behalf of their compatriots after the colony returns to the country from which it was wrested so long...
That is sage advice for viewers of Earth Girls Are Easy, the movies' first postmodernist musical comedy. This divine diversion is best approached in a fruit-cocktail state of mind. With its amiable aliens getting their pop culture out of a TV set and its hydraulic surf bunnies singing "I can't spell VW but I got a Porsche, / 'Cause I'm a blond," Earth Girls sounds like a quick mix of E.T. and Beach Blanket Bingo. But it's really a revved-up tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen...