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Proposals for relief include channeling more water out of Lake Michigan into the Chicago River and reversing two Canadian rivers that spill into Lake Superior. But experts are pessimistic. "Lowering the lake levels by any significant amount is going to take eight to twelve years," says Wisconsin Sea Grant's Jim Lubner. "Even under the most aggressive plans proposed, we're talking about lowering the levels only a foot...
...this century. Never in the history of movies has a leading lady more quickly overcome her languors in order to get ready for romance. The year was 1958. The film was a comedy called Indiscreet. And by this comparatively late date, neither Ingrid Bergman nor anyone else encountering Cary Grant, onscreen or off, had any alternative to bedazzlement as a response...
Better than anyone else, Grant understood that his public persona was a fiction, and a highly stylized one at that. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," he liked to say. "I want to be Cary Grant." Indeed, in a strange way, it had been his lifelong ambition, though at first he could not have given a name to his goal or, as he also admitted, define it with any accuracy. "I don't know that I've any style at all," he once told an interviewer. "I just patterned myself on a combination of 'Jack Buchanan [a debonair English musical...
These films, and several almost as good (mostly dating from Grant's golden era, from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s), relied on his mercurial essence for their effectiveness. In a farce, there was often a bit of malice about him; playing romance, something wary, even near misogynistic in his relationship with a woman; and in every genre he imparted a sense of the fragility and impermanence of human arrangements. Not that such subtleties ever prevented him from taking a pratfall, or dressing up in drag, if necessary...
This last is what people came to know best in recent years. It was the logical extension of his screen character as he had finally refined it, a healthy spirit who kept his troubles and even his memories to himself. Grant quit films in 1966 after Walk, Don 't Run, a relative failure. After that, the public saw only the odd, tastefully tantalizing glimpse of a man minding his own cheerful-seeming business, playing a graceful front man for Fabergé cosmetics, doting on his fifth wife, Barbara, and his daughter Jennifer, 20, by his marriage to Actress Dyan Cannon...