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...suits-a situation of which the test subject is well aware. "My image is very vague," Parker admits. "That makes it difficult for audiences to fully latch onto me and critics to know where to put me. But if you're still struggling, I've got a hook for you: call me 'atomic R & B or plutonium...
...sharper the questions about the wisdom of the venture. The excavation, which is about 10% dug, is useless unless it is finished. But it will take the next 20 years to complete and cost $11 billion. What's more, it cannot operate without an additional $1.6 billion in hook-up costs for the 150 communities involved, and they do not have the money...
...only well-staged sequence is the fight, which is sufficiently suspenseful and lifelike to save the movie from box office disaster. With the addition of Dolby Stereo this time around, every left hook sounds like a rocket taking off in Star Wars. Otherwise, the direction is crude...
...midnight passed and the countdown approached zero, tension increased inside the lead-enclosed control room three miles from Ground Zero, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), where project scientists put aside their munchies and listened intently--by an audio hook...
...Sidney Hook Hoover Institution Stanford, Calif...