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...those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...
...This mismatch came out in the singing as well. While she had mastered some of the chanteuse's mannerisms -- especially a nasal tone in words like "door" and "more" -- she still tended to be too thin and loud in the high notes, and the pace of some songs was awkwardly slack. Which simply means that she doesn't have exactly the voice for this repertoire; who else comes as close...
...HOSPITALS ACROSS THE U.S., DOCTORS ignore, or are unaware of, the last wishes of dying patients, needlessly prolonging their pain and suffering. That is the disturbing conclusion of a massive study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "There is a tragic mismatch between the health care many seriously ill people want and what they get," says the University of Virginia's Dr. William Knaus, co-director of the study. "We don't know when or how to stop...
...Tough" is not a word usually associated with Houston or her music. "Safe" and "homogenized" are, though not always fairly. She has a towering, dynamic voice, but when she sings material that's too slight for her skills (such as Love Is a Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million...
There is no mismatch between our genetic makeup and the modern world, for our genes have given us the ability to forge this modern world. They have been built to satisfy our needs, to meet our requirements, to solve our problems. We have evolved to this; the path of human history is not some fluke: it is all that is true; it is who we are. STEPHEN KRIEGER New York City