Word: plain
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...counsel from them. Studios are giving the green light to more sports pictures: Angels in the Outfield and Little Big League are scheduled for summer release; the Steven Spielberg production Little Heroes, about kids' football, is due out in the fall. To the lords of Hollywood, the lesson is plain. "Mass audiences are looking to feel good," says Joe Roth, who runs a production unit at Disney. "When teams win in these movies, you feel good that you've participated. They are very easy vehicles to get across emotion...
...Sometimes when you write an [e-mail] letter,you intend it to have a sarcastic tone, butthere's no way to detect it from plain text,"Silversmith says. "I'm not sure whether standardsshould be more or less strict, but to apply thesame standards is problematic at best...
DIED. LEWIS GRIZZARD, 47, humorist; from complications following heart surgery; in Atlanta. "A Faulkner for just plain folks" was how one publisher characterized Grizzard, who made hay of everyday angst and irritation in a syndicated column and 14 books -- not to mention on speaking tours and sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...
...some say his hunger for life has an unattractive side; it makes him unreasonable or just plain self-aggrandizing. "He has the qualities and defects of a child," says SMH engineer Jacques Muller, who actually designed the Swatch. "He thinks everything is possible. Unfortunately, everything is | not always possible." Says Hayek's rival and ex-deputy Dr. Ernst Thomke, who claims to have originated the Swatch concept in 1979: "He has to be the big boss, alone, and can never share opinions. He was a consultant all his life, and he wanted to become a marketer and product developer...
...disappear in the wild. Noting that Taiwan and China have "been tried and convicted by CITES and the U.S.," Earth Island's LaBudde says, "A judgment of guilty with no penalty imposed hardly represents any deterrent." Thornton of the EIA agrees: "It is time for us to make it plain that we are not going to stand by and watch the last tiger disappear...