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...with "Hannibal," Universal, with "The Mummy Returns," and Columbia, with "A Knight's Tale," have bought game-time spots (one each) and Paramount is running its "Tomb Raider" ads during the cheaper pre-game (annoying blather) and post-game (Survivor II) time slots. Noticeable event-movie absence: Disney's "Pearl Harbor...
...became a student of Jackson, especially of his oratorical style, his cadences. I heard him speak in every setting from ghetto high schools in Washington and New York ("My mind is a pearl/ I can do anything/ In the worl'.") to sleek 46th-floor dining rooms of the TIME-LIFE Building, where he met with editors and writers preparing cover stories about him. Jackson has many speaking voices - from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy...
...think we ought to admit Red China to the United Nations? Did Oswald act alone? Why do you think Nixon didn't burn the tapes? Was Ronald Reagan a moron or a visionary? Do earth tones really signify the Alpha male? Why, exactly? Did Roosevelt know in advance about Pearl Harbor? You think those Sacco and Vanzetti guys got what they deserved? Did John F. Kennedy in the White House take his orders directly from the Pope of Rome? Would you say that Bill Clinton's roadless lands initiative unwisely ignores foresters' concerns about fuel load buildup and other issues...
...historic sayings, we have "remember the Alamo," "Remember the Maine" and "Remember Pearl Harbor." Somehow "Remember Palm Beach County" doesn't have the same ring. SHIRLEY A. MURTAUGH Signal Hill, Calif...
...first gallery was pure pleasure. The guitars here are among the first created, made by artisans for wealthy patrons to play in their drawing rooms for small groups. They are small, delicate and exquisitely decorated according to their makers' imaginations. Many are inlaid with ivory, ebony, mother of pearl and tortoiseshell, and most have intricately carved rosettas in their centers. It was fascinating to see one made by Stradivarius; the famous violin-maker also had a wonderful sense for the guitar. The second gallery has novelties like a Dali-esque double guitar and harp guitars, but most of the instruments...