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...fairy arranges 100 gems in a line. First, she touches each gem. Then she touches every other gem, starting with the second one. Then she touches every third one, starting on the third gem. This pattern continues until she touches every 99th one (which is just the 99th one) and then every 100th one (which is just the 100th one). She tells you that the gems that she has touched an odd number of times will kill you and the ones that she has touched an even number of times will give you eternal life. Which gems kill...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: MATCH WITS WITH MCKINSEY | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...true gem of the menu is the Warm Berry Cobbler, with New England-grown blueberries and raspberries, which are tiny yet satisfy the palate with a wonderful flavor. It wasn't Haagen Dazs, but the oatmeal topping can compensate. Moreover, the dish arrives at the perfect temperature...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: hoppin | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Bond Flicks Are Formulaic, Everyone Loses | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

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