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...Like I care. The game was over way before it ended, and the forward-thinking Miller came prepared for such fourth-quarter doldrums with the catch-phrase, "Start blow-drying Teddy Koppel's hair, because this one's done." His patter included a mention of the sword of Damocles poised above San Francisco's offensive line, a riff in which he imagined a player whose jersey number was pi, and the observation that Patriots head coach Bill Belichick "blinks about as frequently as Clint Eastwood in a Sergio Leone film." This isn't just wit. This seems...
...Cinovation, Baker's makeup-effects company in Glendale, Calif., corpses dangle from the ceiling and a towering grim reaper stands guard outside his office, holding a sword. Baker is famously stubborn ("extremely committed to his artistic belief system" is how Nutty II producer Brian Grazer puts it), wears his hair in a ponytail and absolutely loves apes. He wore his own monkey suits in The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the remakes of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young. He designed the primates in Gorillas in the Mist and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes...
...great city that, unlike New York, Paris, Berlin or almost any other major Western city, still had no "dedicated" museum of modern art. This was a huge Gordian knot in British culture, and Serota--a low-key man of striking tenacity, intelligence and charm--put Alexander's sword...
...Sword says she would like to see a professional consultant hired to develop a "curriculum" for community education. Harvard's structure makes preventive education difficult, she says...
...larger problem of community education is much harder to resolve, and it is something that is endemic to the decentralized nature of the University," Sword says...