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Bridgette Bardot has finally found it. Not the perfect man (Mon Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become...
...meetings The standard home computer is sold only to somebody who wants one, but the same machine can seem menacing when it appears in an office. Secretaries are often suspicious of new equipment, particularly if it appears to threaten their jobs, and so are executives. Some senior officials resist using a keyboard on the ground that such work is demeaning. Two executives in a large firm reportedly refuse to read any computer printout until their secretaries have retyped it into the form of a standard memo. "The biggest problem in introducing computers into an office is management itself," says...
...Huyard clan, who, like most of their Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different...
...staunchly pro-American. Nevertheless, the U.S. will be disappointed if it expects Nakasone to respond quickly and fully to U.S. requests for increased Japanese military power and eased Japanese import restrictions. Rigid budget limitations make it difficult to step up defense spending, and stubborn farmers will resist more beef and citrus imports...
...poshlost, as the Russians say, an overheated lunge toward the profound, to think of Casablanca in terms of deeper allegory. Still, it is hard to resist delving for Jungian archetypes, primal transactions of the kind that lurk in, say, the Oedipus story (Here's looking...