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...certain goofiness in Sessions' demeanor. Gary Penrith, former chief of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, remembers briefing Sessions on a major racketeering case. Suddenly, Penrith says, Sessions burst into song, chirping the lyrics of an old advertising jingle: "Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya." Penrith, who quit last year, regards his former boss with contempt. "He loses it," said Penrith...
...Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform in a '30s dance marathon with a partner who just won't quit. They shoot Aussies, don't they...
...process of producing a book takes about two years. The timetable assumes only part-time work on the illustrations, since Tom Shefelman is a partner in an architectural firm in Austin; Mrs. Shefelman is a full-time writer. When the first of their two sons was born, Mrs. Shefelman quit her job as a teacher to devote herself to her family and her writing...
...caved in at the last minute and proposed to give Letterman the Tonight show spot -- though for less money than CBS offered and not starting until June 1994. The reason for the delay, according to the reports, was that once the deal was made known, Leno would almost certainly quit, thus freeing NBC from the obligation of paying him $10 million for breaking his contract...
...still lower than Germany and about the same as France), we'd raise $20 billion a year. Anyone who didn't want to pay could switch to one of the cheaper "generic" brands (only 13% have so far) and save much of the tax that way; smoke less; or quit. Side benefits: high prices deter kids from becoming smokers; the more people who quit, the better their health and the lower America's health-care costs...