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...Brando than Cagney. And if his climactic sexual conquest of Blanche is more like a grapefruit in the face than the shattering of a deluded woman's life, the approach makes Stanley less of a monster--and more of a plausible match for Stella, played with unusual strength and spunk by Imogen Stubbs...
...didn't. Instead Lewis has surprised skeptics, including investors, by guiding TLC Beatrice with just as much spunk and savvy as her high-profile spouse did. Despite zero management experience and little firsthand knowledge of the global food business, this immigration lawyer and mother of two led the money-losing conglomerate through a perilous economy and a painful downsizing. She recharged Beatrice's slumping operations, restored its credibility--and credit rating--on Wall Street and returned the company to the black. After reporting its first significant profit in three years in 1994, TLC Beatrice continues to improve the bottom line...
...sign of the times that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please...
...name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...
...Keep a very close eye on the Crimson power play--last year's unit didn't come close to the eye-popping numbers of the 1993-94 team, and Harvard now cries out for a quarterback to spark the group. With no first-team All-Americans to provide some spunk to the shorthanded unit, the special teams certainly are a big question mark...