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...unravels quickly. Through a suite of bizarre events Elizabeth traces the drug set-up back to Dian Black, the cop played by Kate Agresta '02. Agresta's high-pitched, edgy performance seems at times exaggerated, yet it is the only way to reconcile the initial Dian Black, who exudes sleek professionalism, with the final Dian Black who reveals herself as the looniest character...
American popular culture has always beheld the automobile with great reverence. Think of the exhilarating car chase scene in Bullitt or pop song homages like the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe." Today, car companies pay to have their latest sleek models wrecked up in blockbusters. The daredevil protagonist tears through incredibly busy traffic and emerges unscathed, while the villain's car always ends up in either an accident or a heap of manure. Although a BMW will never be a good substitute for an Aston Martin, it is crucial to remember that man's (and I do mean...
...Gore team will eventually be installed - unless they take a suggestion that I made months ago and effect a kind of giant corporate merger establishing for themselves a co-presidency, with one of them taking care of business in the Oval Office while the other presides over the sleek new corporate headquarters in someplace like Seattle or Portland...
...Files, now in its eighth season, the drift had arguably already set in. It was among the most relevant dramas of the 1990s, a sleek buddy-cop variation whose conspiracy motif captured a mood of civic mistrust that ranged from Perotistas to militias. But last year the investigation by Duchovny's Fox Mulder and his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into a government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody...
MUSIC MAKER As if remembering dozens of numbers and surfing the Web weren't enough, wireless phones can now play music, thanks to MP3 player accessories. Ericsson's sleek, brushed-metal MP3 player ($199 at ericssonus.com is designed to work with three of its newest phones. It plays MP3s stored on tiny 32-MB disks, which can hold 30 minutes of music. When a call comes in, the music stops and the earphones do double duty as a hands-free earpiece and mike. A cell phone's work is never done...