Word: tells
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...attention spans. Now 15- and 30-sec. spots dominate, in part because they cost less. One-second ads are even cheaper to buy (Master Lock isn't saying what it paid), and cheaper to make. But can you sell anything in one second? "It's way too early to tell whether--or how--it's going to impact sales," says John Heppner, Master Lock's vice president of marketing...
...tell a new generation is due in Hollywood when actresses who used to play kooky nymphets start portraying earnest newspaper reporters. That's what will happen in Never Been Kissed, a comedy shooting in Los Angeles that stars Drew Barrymore as an aspiring journalist who goes undercover to write about--you guessed it--high school students. "I'm at an interesting place," explains Barrymore, 23. "I'm numerically and biologically young, but I feel so much older because I've lived a fast life. I've been in the working rat race my whole life too, and that always ages...
...lawyer, who had lodged the almost forgotten complaint about leaks last February, had obviously hit pay dirt with Johnson. His motion had all his legal trademarks: it was litigated in secret, was designed to keep Starr quiet, and is a subject about which Kendall will say nothing. Sources tell TIME the appeals court put the matter on hold following the closed-door session, but the episode had clearly escalated the hostilities between Starr and Kendall...
...hours after the scandal broke to shut down Clinton's own plan to explain himself and go public with, as the President put it, more rather than less; sooner rather than later. Even as the White House spin operation was weighing options on how and when Clinton would tell his story--whether it was to be in an interview or a news conference, on television or in print--"the lawyers went through chapter and verse with [Clinton] and decided it was in his best interest not to say anything," White House press secretary Mike McCurry recalled last week...
...nursing home can sometimes lead them to blame others for the death of their loved one. But what Leslie Oliva saw as her mother moved through three California nursing homes during the last three years of her life is part of a bigger, shocking tale the Federal Government will tell this week. The account is based on the most detailed look in more than a decade at some of the nation's nursing homes. "My mother experienced beating, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect," Oliva says quietly. "All three of the nursing homes are responsible for her death...