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Smirk. Was the word invented in 1959, or did it just bloom into popular consciousness to describe the tone of the Rock Hudson--Doris Day comedy Pillow Talk? That film and its myriad spawn populated the screen with horny men in need of domesticating and bouncy career gals who wore chastity belts beneath their Jean Louis frocks. At a time when Hollywood could still only hint at promiscuity, these movies sublimated their animal urges in the classic farce techniques of innuendo and mistaken identity. If their winks were as subtle as the drop of an anvil, and if their nudges...
...troops stay in Iraq, even for the shortest of postwar periods, Americans will be perceived by the world as empire builders, and our actions in Iraq may spawn a thousand Osama bin Ladens who will visit devastation upon our land. If we leave Iraq, it will splinter into a thousand mini-kingdoms of quarreling power grabbers who may ignite a larger war. We can't go, and we can't stay. BOB KETLER Bethlehem, Conn...
Some experts believe marital integration will spawn broader social mixing between the races, giving more people that kind of dual vision. In Birmingham, say the Edgeworths, who live in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood, the once tacitly segregated public parks are slowly integrating as more mixed-raced families like theirs frequent them. "Multiracial living begets more multiracial living, period," says Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor and author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption (Pantheon). That's especially true, he adds, now that mixed marriage in the South is being accepted at all social levels...
...impressive 35% of the domestic market; by 1991, when fewer than half a dozen Brazilian features were made, the share had dropped to 0.5%. The return to form began in the '90s. As statism gave way to capitalism, spanking new multiplexes fed demand for more homegrown films. That helped spawn innovative cinema-funding laws like Brazil's, which offers tax breaks for private investment in film production and last year raked in almost $30 million (City of God cost less than $5 million to make). Last year some 50 films were made in Brazil, raising the domestic market share...
...wondered if we could help spawn the use of Web logs as a mechanism for people at the University to better build communities of knowledge,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, executive director of the Berkman Center...