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HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS, folks. This one's going to be a nail-biter. Our bandit, President Bush, has served up a pretty sinister plan for getting his man on the Supreme Court, and it looks like he's got our hero--the Senate--in a pretty tough spot...
Such success is almost assured by paying attention to the details; like introducing seemingly unimportant elements of Daniel's character--such as his love of wine and his wine cellar, the nail gun and his rotting wood floor--at the beginning of the film and having them figure prominently in its final climax; and like having victims and supporting actors that actually resemble real human beings. But most signifigantly, Arachnophobia possesses a hero audiences can believe...
Chrissy in the play swears she is "gonna be a hammer and everyone else a nail in a world of wood." In the Boom Boom Room might make the audience wonder why the world, and occasionally drama, has to be so wooden...
...retire, you're finished," a crusty William Jovanovich often told his nail-biting subordinates. Yet last week, after 34 years at the helm of book-publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1989 sales: $1.8 billion), the 70-year-old iconoclast finally buckled. He passed his chairmanship to HBJ board member John Herrington, a former U.S. Energy Secretary. "The burden was too great, and Bill had had enough," explains another director. "He was also getting...
Some of the connections may not be so appealing to everyone. Creativity resists even the most creative definitions. "Trying to pin down creativity," as a speaker noted recently at one of the Hallmark card company's regular seminars, "is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall." When the corporate back is to the wall, however, a wild swing can be the best move. "Desperation is a good motive," says David Luther, senior vice president and corporate director of quality at Corning. "Customers came to us and said if we didn't change, they'd go somewhere else...