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...summer slate, says Gill, because "a very sophisticated comedy is much tougher to release in the fall, when there are sophisticated dramas." Fox Searchlight is putting out The Good Girl, a dark comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, on Aug. 7, and duplicating the carefully mapped out release pattern it used for The Deep End last year. Like many indie films, The Good Girl will open first in New York City and Los Angeles. "When you don't have big TV-advertising budgets and you're really relying on publicity and buzz, you need to start in New York and L.A.," explains...
...then a strange pattern began to develop. Cotton had to keep reprimanding Lewis - for clinching, for holding, and finally, once he had clearly begun to get on even terms with Tyson, pushing - an offense which cost the champion a point when Tyson was shoved all the way down to the canvas in the fourth round. In a strange way, the roles had been reversed. Tyson, flat on his back and forlorn, looked like a fighter down on his luck, shove or no shove. Lennox Lewis, the bigger man, almost seemed an oversized bully. But, perversely enough, he started getting...
...meantime, Kurzweil juggles several lucrative projects under the banner Kurzweil Technologies, descendants of his original work in pattern-recognition programs, which simulate human cognition: Medical Learning Co. provides doctors with broad health-care information and a "virtual patient" educational tool. At FatKat, Kurzweil runs both simulated trades and an actual experimental investment fund that uses pattern-recognition software to spot trends in financial markets; a hedge fund is in the works...
...landings at Moses Lake to test the new jet, No. 271 in the nation's youngest fleet (average age: 5.2 years), but he gives up the pilot's seat after an air-traffic controller, not knowing who's at the controls, suggests the 767 fly a tighter pattern to accommodate a military C-17 transport and a P-3 surveillance plane passing nearby. "Continental 9990, do you need to fly all your patterns that wide?" drawls the controller. "Uh, no," responds Bethune, laughing. After the next go-round, he retreats to the cabin...
...very high percentage are alumni cases,” agrees Susan G. Case, a college counselor at Milton Academy, which in some years has sent Harvard a quarter of the Z-list all by itself. “There isn’t necessarily an academic pattern, but it’s usually institutional needs. That’s a phrase they use internally...