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...Gesundheits!" Limning an energetic tryst with one Mrs. Janet Buxton, he apostrophizes: "Oh, what hath headboards and Hemingway wrought!" (I give up: what hath pine and Papa wrought?) And in a reverie on his double hernia, Meyer writes: "Cause: hunkeringly / horizontal / hyper-activity about / atop ?Castle on Mulholland's' slick-sick sheets (lacking tooth)." Translation into English - anyone? Anyone...
...there were more surprisingly just nominations than egregious snubs - though we might as well admit that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (which is wittier than "The West Wing," more suspenseful than "Law & Order" and more inventive than the slick "CSI") could cure cancer and not get a thank-you from Emmy. (It got a few minor nods for music, makeup and hairstyling...
When Mark Fields became president of Mazda in December 1999, he seemed like the kind of American who would try to bulldoze through Japan's porcelain corporate culture--and slink home in frustration. A native New Yorker with a Harvard M.B.A., he appeared slick, headstrong and inexperienced. At 38 he was Mazda's youngest president ever--younger, in fact, than the average employee. He wore sharp suits (and still does). He had a habit of speaking in marketing lingo (which he no longer does). And like most foreigners in Japan, he committed the occasional faux...
...bans foreigners from owning farmland, though they will still be allowed to lease it. The bill now goes to the upper house before officially becoming law with Putin's signature. Meanwhile, the flooded Sunja River washed away oil-storage facilities in southern Russia. The resulting oil slick moved toward the Caspian Sea, threatening to cause environmental catastrophe. MIDDLE EAST In a Corner In response to suicide bombs in Jerusalem, Israeli troops took over seven of the eight main towns in the West Bank, imposing curfews and declaring Hebron a "closed military zone." Israeli tanks and gunships destroyed Palestinian police headquarters...
...Bourne Identity has a couple of things going for it beyond the slick expertise of its making. One of them is Matt Damon. He's a cute guy, but not, in this instance, a cuddlesome one. He has an idea of how a man feeling his way along dangerous ground, with no memory to guide him, might behave. Which is warily. He doesn't have a lot of energy to spare for comic quips or romantic dither either. Think of him as the anti...