Word: roth
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...reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells] and a Wallace Stegner novel." He's also a fan of Philip Roth's, John Irving's, Ernest J. Gaines' and David Halberstam's, but his all-time favorite novels are the schoolboy standards The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. A nearby room will be filled by an enormous trampoline; at the office he sometimes surprises colleagues...
...Everyone right now is standing like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, pointing in both directions and looking to see who goes first," says Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee. "Clearly this reform will not be successful without President Clinton's leadership," says William Roth, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Clinton, however, has only asked his economic team to evaluate the report of that panel, which was headed by Michael Boskin of the Hoover Institution...
Disney studio chairman Joe Roth says he's betting that a family-friendly Christmas movie with two hugely popular stars, Houston's singing and Penny Marshall (Big, A League of Their Own) behind the camera will transcend color. "The biggest movies of all time have always defied conventional wisdom," he argues. Houston finds it discouraging that race is still an issue. "What's so alien about us?" she asks. "I don't understand why there's such a big thing about all-black casts. I've seen movies with all-white casts...It's a movie. Either you like...
...your basic Woody Allen folks, a family of upper-middle-class Manhattan strivers--liberaloid, neurotic, mildly dysfunctional. Mom (Goldie Hawn) numbers among her causes prison reform. So, naturally, her eldest daughter (a wonderfully surprising Drew Barrymore as a coolly appraising material girl) falls for one of the recidivists (Tim Roth, in another of his beautifully calculated bounces off the wall) her mother brings home to dinner. This leaves nice Holden (Edward Norton) in the lurch and Father (Alan Alda) fuming impotently...
...Even if Roth succeeds, however, the impact of his work may be limited. In the world of antiaging, caloric reduction is essentially maintenance work, little more than patching holes in a slowly sinking ship and hoping you can stay ahead of the water it's still taking on. What senescence researchers really want is a way to get down into the body's engine room--the genes themselves--and rebuild things from the boilers up. Remarkably, it appears there...