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...important, attains full life only when he loses himself in a role. The first time director John Badham met the actor he intended to cast in his thriller Nick of Time, he did not recognize him. "He looked like one of those Identi-Kit police drawings," he says, a rough sketch waiting to be rounded out and colored in by his next role...
...early Cynics were real characters, no doubt about it. Advocates of the doggy life, the Cynics were a breed of mad philosophers, terrorizing Greek antiquity with their rough-edged wisdom. Diogenes, probably the most famous Cynic, is well known for his outlandish behavior and his adoration of the "natural life." When a helpful Alexander asked the doggy sage what he could do to aid him, Diogenes replied, "Get out of my light...
...freedom to run its business so long as it works within budget guidelines and doesn't buy movies rated NC-17. "A hundred-percent freedom," says Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "They're completely autonomous. And they should be. They keep their costs down and their ideas up. They look rough-and-tumble, but I always knew they were secret intellectuals and closet film experts. They run the business very well." Eisner has reason to be pleased. In 1993 Disney bought Miramax for about $75 million, the cost of a single A-budget studio film. Today, one movie boss believes...
...White House official is worried that Trent Lott's Republicans are setting up two pins to knock one down. More likely, the G.O.P. will decide just to rough up both candidates a bit. If so, Herman has at least one advantage: one of her first accomplishments as a labor activist some 25 years ago was finding jobs for unemployed teenagers from Mobile--at a shipyard in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Lott's dad was a pipefitter...
...birth a baby's brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way. Also in place are a trillion glial cells, named after the Greek word for glue, which form a kind of honeycomb that protects and nourishes the neurons. But while the brain contains virtually all the nerve cells it will ever have, the pattern of wiring between them has yet to stabilize. Up to this point, says Shatz, "what the brain has done is lay out circuits that are its best guess about what's required for vision...