Word: line
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rice, formerly provost of Stanford University, is in line to become, if Bush wins, either National Security Adviser, Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense. She would be destined to be--not only because of her race and gender but also because of her wit and spark--a politico-celebrity superstar. "She doesn't seem to try to push herself forward in any particular way," says former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is also advising Bush. "But she has such a level of capability...that she winds up getting asked to do all sorts of things...
...product line may have factored into the selection of former Apple executive Rebecca Patton, 43, as CEO. But the crucial issue was to hire an experienced manager to run the place. "The control thing was totally unimportant to us. Several people have told us that's a female characteristic," Herrin says, as if she wouldn't know one way or the other...
Personal video recorders, or PVRs (also called "digital video recorders" and "personal TV"), save programs to internal hard drives that can hold 10 to 30 hours of programs. Sounds like a VCR, but there's a big difference: using a phone line, the players download program schedules that pop up on the screen, where you click on a show rather than punching in times and channels and hoping you have got it right. This feature is free with Replay, while TiVo charges $9.95 a month, $99 a year or $199 lifetime. The ReplayTV box, currently sold only online, starts...
...Diane Von Furstenberg showed a dress festooned with marijuana leaves. Miguel Adrover, a newcomer, splattered a frock with newspaper and paint, and Antilika tried to get at the essence of a woman through dresses decorated with a baby or a pregnant-looking belly. Maybe she should start a maternity line...
...Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits for the funny line that rarely arrives...