Word: runaways
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...cultural approval they often try to style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since Western publishers are traditionally xenophobic themselves, few Japanese writers manage to negotiate the crossover. The coin of any realm?runaway domestic best sellerdom?is the surest ticket out of Japan. But occasionally literary laurels based on distinctive work over an extended career provide purchase...
...hardly admire the way President Bush reached his shortsighted stem-cell conclusion [THE STEM-CELL DECISION, Aug. 20]. That he brought politics into it at all is deplorable. Manipulating the human genome is a runaway train gathering speed by the minute, but instead of jumping on and inviting global debate, the best Bush could do was to straddle two tracks, hoping Ol' Engine No. 2004 would pick him up. KATHRYN H. HOLLEN Leesburg...
After a month of negotiations, the decision: LISA HARRISON--the WNBA's Sexiest Babe, according to Playboy.com's online poll--will not drop her shorts for a Playboy layout. The 6-ft. Phoenix Mercury forward, who won the poll in a runaway after she breezily mentioned that she might pose if she won, decided she wouldn't show her most valuable assets after Playboy declined to show her the right combination of figures. (Neither side would discuss exact numbers.) During the unusually public full-court press by Playboy, persuasive layouts of volleyballer Gabrielle Reece and skater Katarina Witt were sent...
...attempt to do in New York"--but fate saw her coming. On the count of three--Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman--Roberts was a star. Now, at age 33, with an Oscar and a recent string of hits that includes the summer of '99 doubleheader Notting Hill and Runaway Bride, Roberts is flying higher than any full-grown actress (yes, we are aware of Shirley Temple) in history--a salary equal to her male peers and the ability to get behinds the world over into seats on opening weekends...
...other was with Walter Matthau. Lemmon was his longtime buddy's Costello in 1966's "The Fortune Cookie," as the hapless cameraman trampled by a runaway football player and browbeaten into filing a false insurance claim by his ambulance-chasing brother-in-law. In 1968's "The Odd Couple," Lemmon was the surrealistically fastidious Felix Unger to Matthau's slovenly Oscar Madison - a movie whose comedic bliss is occasionally spoiled by the discomfort brought on by the sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring...