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...tail. Once, when I interviewed Gerald Ford at his home office in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for a book, the ex-President pulled me aside, pointing to that week's incoming correspondence. Mail about his role in the Warren Commission was three or four feet high compared with a measly inch pertaining to his White House tenure. But Hanks is perfectly aware of the beehive he is about to kick over. He seems to relish the prospect...
...much more important this moment would be than just an opportunity to entertain people for 45 seconds, we were able to come up with a speech that is honest and still fun. If she wins, Anna - who is 5 ft. 2 in. - is going to remove her four-inch heels to run to the podium, then put the shoes back on. Then she'll warn the booth to bleep her in five seconds, when she'll mouth an expletive between "This is" and "great." Then she'll make fun of one of her co-winners for not showing enough excitement...
...significant extent, the Academy Awards manages to do so, in a way that reflects the status shift in media that its broadcast entails. For the Oscars, celebrities are quite literally brought down to size—transported from a fifty-foot wide movie screen to a thirty-two-inch TV screen. The real genius of the Academy Awards broadcast is what it invites its viewers to do: fancy ourselves among the elite, if not somewhere slightly above them...
...those bitches can die” or anything foolish like that. Try to figure out if anyone you know from extracurricular activities has space for another person in their blocking group, and if desperate times call for desperate measures, be sure to mention the 50-inch plasma TV that you just happened to bring to school...
...resident remembered a minor tsunami from decades ago, how it sucked the water out of a canal and then came back as a six-inch wall of water. "It didn't crest or foam," he recalled, "it was a wall." Locals in Hawaii know which areas to worry about when a tsunami warning goes off. Phonebooks have maps in the front indicating the likeliest inundation zones. Authorities also know which harbors to evacuate. That's why as soon as state officials were notified about the tsunami rippling out from the quake in Chile, ships were evacuated from the harbors...