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...largest industry here is apple picking; inthe autumn, the town's nine major orchards--its largest employers--draw busloads of tourists eager to pluck Macintosh and Granny apples from the ripe trees...
...onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms O'Neill's monologue into a ripe conversation with the audience. So again, go figure: Al Pacino, film star, was made for the stage...
...Jack has." Kemp bowed his head, as if penitent about having made some cash-giving speeches. Mostly, though, he's tapping a foot, pointing, craning his neck, pretending to throw a pass or take a snap from the center. With women, he holds each face like a ripe melon before planting a kiss. Or he blows kisses. While speaking, he spreads his arms, massages the wedding ring on his left hand, rubs the walnut-size football-championship ring on his right. Being the backup doesn't come easy. At the first post-convention rally, he said he wasn't going...
...numbers do not seem to add up. No matter, say campaign aides; he's running for President, not accountant in chief. Besides, adds Donald Rumsfeld, a senior policy adviser, the Republican nominee is not talking to economists: "The real audience here is the American people." Rumsfeld figures they are ripe for a debate on taxes. "As we saw with [Governors] Christie Whitman in New Jersey and John Engler in Michigan, it is a debate Republicans can win," he says...
...might dictate that "Clueless" changes the locale and pace of the novel so radically--Emma would say "Whatever" only if followed by a four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with more simplified satire and a touch of modern sensibility...