Word: harrison
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About halfway through “Blade Runner,” Harrison Ford sits down on a couch with a glass of liquor and inserts a photograph into a machine that looks like the bastard child of a dishwasher and a used VCR. It’s called an “Esper.” Its purpose? To vividly zoom in on any given portion of a photo, revealing clues to those who seek them. If there’s a metaphor for the experience of watching “Blade Runner,” this scene...
...basic Australian male is--who else?--whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudointimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...
Porter will be joined on Romney’s global competitiveness group by a number of business professionals—including honorary co-chairs William B. Harrison, Jr., who is the former chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay. Whitman is an HBS graduate...
...taking of the title of all-time homerun champ it would be an understatement to say that people don’t like this whole steroid business much. But there’s no avoiding it: With guys like wunderkind Rick Ankiel, Olympic hero Marion Jones, and Patriot Rodney Harrison all going down in the last few months, the question is no longer who’s using, but who isn’t using. And we may get some answers shortly—very likely beginning with George Mitchell’s two on baseball, expected to be issued...
...ne—a quality not absent from “Darjeeling.”For example, some reporters at the event questioned the degree to which the appearance of the considerable moustache sported by Jason Schwartzman’s character, whose look seems to have roots in George Harrison circa 1974, was just an accident. Coppola and Anderson struggled to find a consensus.“Hmmm… Ummm,” mumbled Coppola, before Anderson clarified, “Uhhh… actually in the script I think it actually says ‘a Beatles-type...