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...applied for a UNIX account the first day I arrived at Harvard. Luckily, my account was ready the next day, and I waltzed on over to the Science Center, happy as a virus on a 200 megabyte hard drive. (Computer humor. You're supposed to laugh...
...betrayed them by supporting such weapons systems as the B-2 and Strategic Defense Initiative. For all his charm, he is a loner, a shy person who finds it distasteful to court constituents. "Don't try to describe Les as a real human being," says an associate with a laugh. His big smile and firm abrazo notwithstanding, he isn't captivated with small talk. Says a friend, "As he whispers in your ear, his thoughts may be 6,000 miles away." A teetotaler with a consuming passion for food in all its varieties, he is a well-known workaholic...
EMMA THOMPSON LAUGHS -- A hearty, conspiratorial, practiced laugh -- as she listens gleefully to an American telling her that her comic sex scene with Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy was shown on New York City's X-rated cable show Midnight Blue...
...nearby, as close and attentive as a lover, alert to the minutest inflection of voice or glance. Her Howards End work -- as Margaret Schlegel, a domestic diplomat mediating between warring families, classes and principles -- is a compact master class in screen subtlety. She punctuates an argument with a gay laugh, as if to say, "We surely aren't fighting!" Just before she first kisses her future husband, the self-deceiving predator Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins), her body shivers, her hand flutters. The gestures, measurable in microseconds, give a brilliant hint of Margaret's doubt smothered by her resolve...
Blame it on Amy Fisher. The tabloids' favorite teen temptress was the subject of three network movies in December and January. Critics hooted in derision, but the networks had the last laugh: ratings for all three ranged from good to great. Since then, the scramble to turn sensational news events into juicy TV drama has gone into overdrive. In May, along with the Waco cult story, NBC has announced plans to air a movie based on the World Trade Center bombing -- less than three months after the disaster...