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Few people overhearing him would suspect it, but those barely audible hums are the stuff dream musicals are made of. Out of them, Lloyd Webber, 39, has spun a worldwide empire unmatched in the history of musical theater. With one exception, the ill-starred Jeeves of 1975, Lloyd Webber has...
Despite the paucity of plot, Page has a lock on an Academy Award nomination for this film. She can express more with the contours of her face than most actresses can express with their entire bodies. We come to understand her less by what she says than by how she...
But he retains his immense appetite for work. He usually sleeps no more than five hours a night, averages twelve-hour workdays and hums along like a dynamo. Says he: "I can just keep going at the same speed." He says he gets his best ideas during 20-minute showers...
Fiddling with the door lock on the Tudor-style mansion, Funk says it will rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently...
The Su-15 pilot sends out an IFF (Identification: Friend or Foe) radio signal to Flight 007 to see if it is a friendly Soviet plane. But the Su-15's IFF frequency can be picked up only by Soviet aircraft. The jumbo hums westward into the darkness, unaware...