Word: hoffmann
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When Cacheris and Stein arrived at the midtown apartment last Monday morning, they brought along their secret weapon: Cacheris' colleague Sydney Jean Hoffmann, a 46-year-old mother of two with a law degree and a bedside manner. They had realized right away upon taking Monica's case that it was impossible for her to talk over matters of the heart and details so personal with men who were all pushing 70. And so Cacheris turned to Hoffmann to become Monica's handler. Hoffmann was a natural; not only did she and Monica have rapport, but she was also...
Benhabib said Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley Hoffmann, CES Director Charles S. Maier and Professor of Government and of Sociology Theda Skocpol will be among those in attendance...
...opera. This spring Dunster House offered a splendid performance of "Tales of Hoffmann." Some quite fine thespians and a refreshingly superb orchestra, coupled with the often ribald and vaudvillean tone of Jacques Offenbach's opera, provided a high caliber and rollicking fun performance...
Doctors are quick to point out that the new diet pills are intended for only the truly obese. That caveat notwithstanding, however, such companies as Hoffmann-La Roche--orlistat's manufacturer--can be forgiven for feeling that they have hit the pharmaceutical jackpot. About 58 million Americans already spend $30 billion annually battling the scale. Even if the new drug doesn't slim waistlines, it will surely fatten someone's bottom line...
...gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot cliches: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffmann), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim "Oh, God!" 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who when covered with gray ash learn that, gee, Armageddon is color-blind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please...