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Perhaps the best thing about being MARLON BRANDO is that no matter what fresh weirdness you engage in, nobody is shocked. So when the giant star suggested to The Island of Dr. Moreau director John Frankenheimer that Dr. Moreau should wear white gunk on his face because the ozone layer had been destroyed, Frankenheimer bought it. After all, he had agreed to take over the problem-plagued movie partly because of Brando. "He's a genius," raves Frankenheimer. "He sees things so clearly." As for Brando's famously mercurial ways (e.g., needing to be fed lines), he says...
After barely six months at Hilton, Bollenbach has added a layer to the empire bequeathed by former CEO Barron Hilton, the son of founder Conrad. Last month the company agreed to buy Bally Entertainment's hotels and casinos, adding 4,826 rooms to Hilton's collection of 99,105 and, more important, giving Hilton two gambling tents in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a place now fairly bursting at the seams with wage burners. "He's brilliant and a terrific guy," says Trump, the once and future king of Atlantic City, whose own company can't build rooms fast enough...
...collision between warm and cold air masses sets up conditions that favor the growth of big thunderstorms. A tornado, however, requires something else as well: the presence of what meteorologists call wind shear. This occurs when winds in the so-called boundary layer--the part of the atmosphere closest to earth--blow more gently than winds at higher elevations. These two wind streams push on the layer of air that lies between them as though it were an invisible rolling pin. Then, as the warm updraft that powers a supercell shoots toward the stratosphere, it tilts the rolling...
That doesn't mean he knows exactly what he would do in the White House if he got there. Getting to Dole's core involves some archaeology. Surely some object will ultimately be unearthed, but only after digging through layer after layer of contradictory public positions--he is for affirmative action, then against it; he favored comprehensive health-care reform, then he dismissed the idea that there was a health-care crisis. He has fought alongside ideologues enough to learn not to trust them; in 1985, when he believed Reagan was serious about cutting the deficit, he actually took...
...then, within the snow. Not that we are encased as one of its layers. But what if, in the middle of the 11:00 shift, the bells of Memorial Church signalled that we were all to simultaneously lay down on the snow and await the next hour's replacement? We would be a layer of snow, part of the landscape, and the dogs could frolic among us, within the snow. Our vision would be crysalline and white, as if we were under the sea though specifically not scuba diving. If we were under the sea, we would be constructing...