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...kind of restraint is particularly important in one aspect of "Someone's Watching Over You": a spoken middle eight. If you're like me, you look forward to most of these sappy soliloquies just about as much as seeing the bottom line on your 1040 form (or getting another peek at "Grand Ole Opry" emcee "Whispering" Bill Anderson's overdone face-lift). But George carries it off with aplomb - adding just the right touch of disbelief to the dollops of sincerity...
...bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...
...guard at the reception desk, down past the rows of slightly musty bunk beds, past the red-eyed guys slumped in front of a tiny TV screen filled with colored snow. Just as your heart starts to sag with despair for the human condition, though, stop and take a peek through the locked door on the right. The contrast couldn't be starker. You see a brilliant white computer lab with state-of-the-art PCs and a massive Ethernet hookup; rows of servers with blinking green lights and spaghetti wiring...
...cameras but find the rest just too newfangled, Kodak may have the camera for you. When you shoot a picture with the new Kodak Advantix Preview ($299), it takes a regular old picture on film and captures a digital image at the same time, so you get a sneak peek at the shot you just snapped. That way, if you make that goofy face again, you won't have to wait for the prints to find...
...libraries have electronic surveillance systems. Any book taken out of the library should set off the system (and often, the system is set off when someone leaves with no books at all, so we know if it errs in any direction, it's oversensitive). More importantly, though, a peek into my bag has no chance of letting the guard know if I am taking any books with me. For goodness's sake, how stupid do they think we are? If someone wanted to take a book, they would do it, and the cursory check at the door would...