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...hoo, poor Microsoft, getting pushed around by that big ol' bully, the American government. I appreciated the "everybody-loves-an-underdog" sentiment of senior David M. Weld's "Booing Bill Gates" commentary (Nov. 18), but he is sadly misled in his Panglossian views on Microsoft's "evil empire...
...Hackford is smart enough not to let the cinematography get in the way of Pacino: as Milton, the actor is his own special effect. And when the actual special effects--including a wall sculpture that comes to swarming, slithery life--do appear, they pale in comparison to Pacino's "hoo-ha" rambunctiousness...
...trick of shifting, in a heartbeat, from saloon baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, almost see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like...
...protest escalated into a brawl and led to the arrest of 21-year-old political science major Robert Hoo, according to the Yale Daily News
...with temperament; the curmudgeonly seem to grunt no more frequently than the congenial. Nor does health or fitness play a role. I exercise four times a week and eat a diet so low in fat my doctor nearly took to prescribing me pork chops, and yet my hoo-boy arrived right on time. But if the roots of the grunt can be found in neither physiology nor psychology, where do they lie? Increasingly, I've begun to suspect that the answer is evolution...