Word: stiffs
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Lowe's first pictures of the Senator and his family, taken when Jack was stiff and rushed by the campaign schedule, disappointed the photographer. But they impressed Jack and Jackie, who summoned Lowe to the family's New York City apartment one evening in the fall of 1958. For hours the three of them crawled over the floor examining the contact sheets, choosing pictures to be used for the campaign and the family Christmas card. Lowe was stunned by his reception and left at 1:30 in the morning, after a convivial drink and the promise of more work ahead...
Celebrities wishing to cash in on Christmas face increasingly stiff competition in a saturated market—everyone wants a piece of the fruitcake. The days when the only original holiday special featured Kathy Lee Gifford dressed as Mrs. Claus and occasionally bursting into song with husband Frank and son Cody sporting matching light-up reindeer sweaters are a thing of the past...
...unlikely places that you leave the theater with your heart humming happily. He has his dark--well, darkish--side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips. Don't get me wrong: Love Actually is not a black or even a particularly bleak comedy. But it does remind us--sometimes with a winning, unpolished awkwardness--that the pursuit of love is a game that is as dangerous as it is exhilarating. --By Richard Schickel
...back on a server near you, this time as a legal pay-per-download and subscription music service for Windows PCs. The official relaunch is Oct. 29, but a TIME test run shows that Napster 2.0 has got the rock to draw a crowd. The service will launch into stiff competition; this week Apple is expected to debut a Windows version of its highly successful (and until now Mac-only) iTunes Music Store...
...natural resource-rich nation a player in the global economy—a move that Bolivia was clearly not ready to embrace. Sanchez’s plan involved exporting some of Bolivia’s abundant natural gas to willing buyers in Mexico and California. The idea met stiff resistance from the Bolivian population, who scoffed at the notion that the gas pipeline would need to pass through the Chilean coast, since the coastline in question was part of Bolivia before it was lost to Chile in a war fought between 1879-1883. This troublingly isolationist stripe of the Bolivian...