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...that the puzzle's constructor, Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell - a Butler University professor of, what else, mathematics - had submitted a simpler version to the Times for election Day 1980, with CARTER and REAGAN as the interchangeable words. Maleska turned it down, supposedly asking, "What if John Anderson wins?" (I still shake my head in wonder at Farrell's brilliance, and Maleska's myopia.) Sixteen years later, Farrell revived and revised the idea. Though Shortz typically revises about half of the clues in an average puzzle, and did tweak the surrounding clues, he left the central section gloriously intact...
...tree is a multi-family unit; Hannah's next-branch neighbors are professional tree-protectors John Quigley and Julia "Butterfly" Hill, and - for one night - Joan Baez. In Los Angeles, you really can shake a tree and a celebrity falls out. Hill, who is in the midst of a hunger strike that wound up lasting 26 days, encourages me as I ascend. "So often in our lives fear holds us back," Hill yells down at me, smiling. "And most of us miss out on the magic of life because of that one little word." I wonder if by week three...
...plus video with audio, and watch it in all its high-resolution glory on your high-definition TV. Video compression is also featured, which gives four times the video storage of older digital cameras. The amateur needn't fret; a movie stabilizer helps reduce the dreaded vibrations of "camera shake." And Digimax Reader text-recognition software is in place for the James Bond type who needs to snap documents on the fly and then isolate and extract text from an image...
...Robertson really leg-press 2,000 lbs.? When he was 72? Even though that's nearly 700 lbs. more than some college-record holders can handle without rupturing blood vessels in their eyeballs? The reverend is standing firm on the claim, first made in a promo for his protein shake, although he added last week that he "did it one time, one rep" and moved the ton only a few inches. He also revealed why he got into leg pressing: bad knees...
Here's what a conversation with Meryl Streep would look like with the sound off: Talking. Distracted head shake from Sophie's Choice. More talking. Sideways glance into the middle distance from Kramer vs. Kramer. Another, longer set of words. Wearied blink--The French Lieutenant's Woman. Pause. Statement. Huge wicked giggle. It's as if an International Fragile Female Parade collided with a clown car at an intersection. Listen to Streep long enough, and you can see every character she has ever played. But none of them...