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...unique feature of the party in recent years has been the mini-pageant of movie skits in which famous actors and industry titans get up on a miniature stage in cheesy costumes to act out humorous little vignettes from the year's Best Picture nominees. The scripts are usually thin jokes, read from pages thrust into their hands as they go on stage. Many of the cracks are insider gags tailored for the glittering crowd. What it most resembles is the living room shows that six-year-olds put on for their parents and relatives. The real quality...
...first-years placed in the other 11 Houses, official notification came yesterday morning, at approximately 8:30 a.m., in the form of a thin envelope delivered to one member of each blocking group...
...reasons, including the Saudis' early refusal to allow American law enforcement officials to interview people suspected of having a connection to the incident. Sources in Lewis's camp say some in the FBI pressed for indictments and advocated other aggressive moves, but prosecutors have considered the evidence far too thin. FBI officials counter that the issue was never indictments but rather a lack of support from Lewis's office. Lawyers familiar with the case dismiss bureau complaints as a power play. "Louis Freeh wanted to be both the investigator and the prosecutor," said...
...just lost it. I had to walk out for a while. I just left him singing. That was weird. Celine Dion was also amazing ... She did the vocals [for 'That's the Way It Is'] in 2 1/2 hours. Just like that. She's tiny! She's very thin! And her output is so loud! It's like if you were watching a sprinter running the 100 m in 3 seconds. It didn't fit. We just sat there like, "You can't do that." That's a great feeling, to be surprised like that. She's just the best...
...long and rather strange winter that began, more or less, with the U.S. Supreme Court's intervention in the presidential election, and proceeded through a thin post-inaugural honeymoon - the Phony War - ends, more or less, with a crystallization, at last, of issues that betoken the real war that looms...