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...Before I continue, let me stress how much I appreciate and admire the men and women who deliver the mail to my apartment building, despite their tendency to smash wedding invitations and magazines into irreparable balls. They bring that mail to us every darn day, and I wholeheartedly admire their work ethic...
...your mouth is dry and your hands clammy by the time you reach him, Jobs will know it. He'll bat your slightly probing questions away like bugs. He'll smash your really probing questions in mid-sentence like conspiratorial vials of poison. As one journalist who has covered the man for many years says, "he can smell fear...
...scramjet?as different from a jet engine as a rocket was from the steam engine?and this will be its first flight. If all goes to plan, it should smash every world airplane record. It will make the fastest aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 (Mach 6.7), look turgid, and leave the fastest jet, the SR-71 Blackbird (Mach 3.2), in its stratospheric dust. Says Vince Rausch, director of the Hyper-X project: "It's the future. We're convinced of that. What we've not done yet is demonstrate to the people it's real. And that's what...
Billie doesn't quite match Anderson's best cable work, mostly because it's too often as subtle as an overhead smash. While in an airport, King decides to play Riggs after hearing that he's beaten Australian tennis ace Margaret Court--then, to triple-underline the moment in red, she witnesses a male pilot feeling up a mortified, silent stewardess. What saves the film is its understanding of the odd symbiosis between the vain, garrulous Riggs--played by Ron Silver with an endearing desperation--and the equally media-savvy King, who needs his histrionic male chauvinism to advance...
...when Helen Fielding's smash hit "Bridget Jones's Diary" stormed onto the market in the mid-'90s, I was prepared. Just as I knew exactly where and when I would buy my copy, I also knew precisely where I would put it (anchored safely behind Germaine Greer and Naomi Wolf). I bought the book and surreptitiously devoured it, laughing ruefully at Bridget's travails, her occasional public drunkenness and her misadventures in the great world of weight loss. Casting guilty glances in the direction of Gloria Steinem's memoirs, I empathized utterly with Bridget's quest...