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...reason is that the search for Polly is being conducted along America's rapidly emerging information superhighway. By generating an electronic poster bearing a photo of Polly and an FBI sketch of her kidnapper, the people of Petaluma have been able to disseminate the images to computer screens and fax machines across the country. That information, in turn, has been converted into 7 million high-quality hard copies -- the posters now on bulletin boards and lampposts everywhere...
...this place is great," Mick said. "It's where everyone around here gets their flowers, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Hey, you want me to draw you a picture of an eagle?" I let Mick sketch his prize in my notebook--it consisted of three curvy lines loosely drawn together--before directing my attention to the shop itself...
Americans unaware of recent events might have been excused for thinking that the photos from the White House lawn were part of some weird Monty Python sketch. Yasser Arafat, whose most recent political allegiance was with Saddam Hussein, being hugged by Bill Clinton? Yitzhak Rabin, who as Minister of Defense six years ago initiated Israel's hard-line response to the Intifadah, shaking Arafat's hand? It all seemed a bit unreal, as if Godot had suddenly appeared to Vladimir and Estragon...
What can viewers expect starting Sept. 7? First, an early start: the Chevy Chase Show will have a half-hour jump on Jay and Dave. He will do a nightly version of his SNL Weekend Update routine. He will play sketch characters: a Monsieur Faux Pas, perhaps the old SNL "land shark" metamorphosed into a dinosaur. Big-name guests? No problem: "I know every celebrity there is, practically, and they're all friends...
There were suspicions of bottom trawling when Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels chose to follow up last year's hit movie Wayne's World with a new stretching of an SNL sketch. The Coneheads, with Dan Aykroyd as Beldar and Jane Curtin as his wife Prymaat, were amusing enough in 11 skits when the show was young and flush, but could they sustain a feature film 15 years and many * zeitgeists later? Affirmative. The movie is funny and sweet -- a vision of genially warped family harmony...