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That may be the shortest treatment in the history of the movies. It is surely one of the most truthful because, seven years and $25 million later, the four modest sentences that set this film in motion still accurately summarize The Bear. And, ironically, they send exactly the wrong signals to the sophisticated filmgoers who should be its most appreciative audience...
Here Today...: St. Lawrence (16-1, 11-1) may have had the shortest-lived stay on top of the NCAA rankings this season. The Saints, ranked number one in the poll released January 11, fell to fourth this week after losing to the Crimson, 5-1 last Saturday in Canton...
Addicts plot the shortest routes to malls, pore over catalogs during coffee breaks, greet store sales help -- and security guards -- by name. Even when they browse with friends, they can be secretly prowling for purchases; often they sneak back to make a "hit." Out on a spending spree, they pick out items in a euphoric daze, but many of their purchases make little sense. Says Alice, 34, of New Jersey, a brokerage-house trainee: "I was possessed when I went into a store. I bought things that didn't fit, that I didn't like and that I certainly didn...
...gilded china service for 18 (including 22 serving and covered vegetable dishes); Waygood Otis built two working elevators; and Cartier made seven clocks and two barometers. A.E. Housman, who allowed some of his poems to be copied small for the 200-book library, commented: "I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover...
...want to grow tall." That was the birthday gift Reza Garakani, 14, one of the world's shortest dwarfs, would ask of friends and relatives year after year. His parents would joke and bluff their way through the painful moment. "Maybe next year, champ!" Later in the night they would cry themselves to sleep together. Their son's wish, like that of more than 50,000 other Americans who suffer from some form of dwarfism, had long been ungrantable...