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...renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie...
...spotted Bill looking chic in Cabot Science Library with this laptop bag—more staid than your average man purse—which he acquired a year ago to hold his Dell computer. He describes his bag as functional, but says he usually sports a backpack. “The bag makes me look serious,” says Little, “but I assure...
Swedish elections are ordinarily staid affairs, but this year's political season has been jolted by charges of computer espionage. The Social [an error occurred while processing this directive] Democrats called in the police last week after declaring that the Liberal Party had hacked into their private computer network 78 times between January and March. The ruling SDP has accused Liberal Party campaigners of illegally obtaining its strategy secrets for the Sept. 17 general elections by accessing an Intranet reserved for SDP leadership. Prime Minister and leader of the SDP Göran Persson said he was "shocked" by this...
...when her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), nearly attacked her during the pair’s first debate or when her approval soared to all-time highs across the nation post-Monica. As the country saw in the downfall of the weak-kneed Kerry and the staid Gore to the cowboy Bush, though, the way to the White House is paved in images of determination and strength, particularly in times of indefinite war. In a Gallup July 20 poll on Clinton’s “strengths and weaknesses,” only 32 percent of independents...
...more attractive mix of posers, and I found myself spending much more time with each issue of, say, Variety Puzzles, than with Pencil Puzzles & Word Games. (Apparently, others did too. A few years ago, Penny Press took control of Dell - another example of an upstart engulfing and devouring a staid old American institution...