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...Middlemarch's capable scenarist, Andrew Davies. In a bodice-ripping love scene that is not in the novel, Rosamond tells her smitten husband, "You must be gentle with me, Tertius, now I am with child." Even on her worst day, George Eliot could never have written a line as precious as that...
...charting the future of the network, Harvardhas precious little guidance from the law orexisting regulations. As University Attorney AllanA. Ryan Jr. warned during on October conference atthe Law School, "the law is doing what it can, butthe users of technology are far ahead of thelawmakers...
...Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" had more precious little details than you could shake a stick at--unless, of course, you were the conducter! The preceding is a perfect example of the level of humor in currency among the musical-going crowd. Here's another: as a slave in Egypt--would that he really were--Donny Osmond wears a toga-esque outfit, which Pharoah Elvis refers to as "Fruit of the Tomb...
...million, U.S. intelligence official Rick Ames and his wife Rosario allegedly sold Moscow a precious trove of American secrets. U.S. officials fear that during a nine-year period that ended with his arrest last week, he may have tipped off Moscow to virtually every CIA intelligence operation against the former Soviets, raising questions about America's security apparatus in the post-cold...
...background of Muzak, we are treated to close-ups of the big blue vein in the side of Madeleine Stowe's boob and the long hair on Aidan Quinn's chest. Director Apted has no sense of tasteful nudity. Or relevant nudity, for that matter. Why does Apted waste precious minutes on the scene where Emma walks around her apartment naked, sniffing flowers: Is he implying that she has blossomed sexually? Do we care...