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...unfortunate accidents persuade Monica to abandon David in a forest. Quick as a face slap, David and the audience are in a strange new world containing refugee robots with half-faces and a jaunty "love mecha" named Gigolo Joe (Law). In Kubrick's script, says Law, "Joe was much more aggressive, more twisted." Here he is, in Spielberg's word, David's "scoutmaster." (This was the section Kubrick could not solve and which Spielberg, in developing it, has softened. The Kubrick version would have been rated R; this film...
Anyone who has paid more than $2 a gal. for gas or pondered an electricity bill lately might doubt that the U.S. energy crunch could be easing. Energy inflation in the past year has hit the economy like a slap in the face, and the sting has lingered. Collectively, we've spent $28.2 billion more on natural gas and electricity in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year, money we could have used to buy other things that keep an economy going. But as more companies bring fuel supplies and power plants online...
...spring training various scouts, coaches, managers and players took one look at Ichiro's 1.75-m, 73-kg frame and his open stance, and thought the same thing: inside heat. But Ichiro, a quick-wristed, fast-out-of-the-box slap hitter with excellent bat control, will not be bullied. In a recent Mariners' victory against the defending champion Yankees, ace right-hander Roger Clemens threw a wicked 150 km/h splitter that broke near Ichiro's knees. No matter. Ichiro grazed the ball with the tip of his bat, sending it rolling down the third-base line for a double...
...literature describes coming to America as though it were negotiating some remote terrain. Yet over meals I’ve managed to discuss everything and anything with my friends, from shared childhood memories (sure, “The Cosby Show” was an international hit, but who knew slap bracelets were a worldwide trend in the early ’90s?) to emotional issues (which, as it turns out, are less culturally specific than one might think...
...slap-down at the U.N., of course, is purely symbolic. Washington retains its dominant status in the international body, particularly because of its veto power in the all-important Security Council, and is sure to use its influence to play a major role in the Human Rights Commission. But the vote was clearly a blow to the prestige of a nation that sees itself as a global champion of human rights...