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...quietly different from the rest of the holiday releases: a bit old-fashioned in the sweet, simple values it embraces, but with a decidedly modern slant. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel as if it's earned a pleasant afterglow (and perhaps a Kleenex or two). Nicholson and Hunt are strikingly good, and James Brooks shows that he knows how to craft a clever love story. There's no shame in letting yourself get carried away by As Good As It Gets--you're in good hands...
...sides of a self that search for one another eternally, ancient Hebrew poets call a Bashert (soul mate), one is destined to find. Regardless of your philosophical leanings, it is easy to think of life as a quest for that certain someone who knows when to offer a Kleenex, give a sideways glance or laugh at that joke only you tell just...
...less paper? In 1974, Sir Roger Penrose, the esteemed Oxford mathematician, devised a geometric pattern--dubbed the Penrose Pattern--that demonstrated for the first time that a nonrepeating pattern could exist in nature, above right. Then one day Sir Roger noticed that the design on a roll of Kleenex quilted toilet tissue bore a striking resemblance to his unique pattern. This month he and Pentaplex Ltd., which markets his design, filed suit against Kimberly-Clark Ltd. for copyright infringement. "When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited ...to wipe their bottoms on what appears...
...made of plastic. The effortlessly graceful Marie-Jose Perec showed that she was a true champion when her bronzed rival in the 400 m, Falilat Ogunkoya, teared up as she thought of the mother she had just lost and Perec warmly hugged her (while a volunteer fetched a Kleenex). Japanese said "Muchas gracias" to Cuban baseball players, and the Cubans responded, with typical charm, "Domo arigato." Charles Barkley gave his practice jersey to the 14-year-old daughter of Alice Hawthorne, the woman killed in Atlanta's bombing...
...year's Games, his team finished out of the money and he had to settle for bronze in the all-around, but never mind. To extract the last bit of drama from the Scherbos, NBC had Irina and their daughter transported back to the crash scene for a four-Kleenex finale...