Word: thornton
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...your magazine over the past few years. While I appreciate PCs as much as anyone, I'm no more interested in details about the geeks who develop them than I am in the people who perfect cellular phones. Bring us the technology, but drop the hero worship. KEVIN C. THORNTON Finksburg, Maryland...
Like Ruth, Sling Blade's Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a brain-damaged naif taken in by strangers. When he was 12, Karl killed his mother and her lover. Now, 25 years later, he is released from a mental hospital and befriended by a boy (Lucas Black) who could be a healthier version of the lonely, imperiled child Karl was and still is. Rural Arkansas is home to some very decent people--the boy Frank, his mother and her boss (Ritter), Karl and his various keepers--and one or two moral skunks, notably the loutish boyfriend (Dwight Yoakam...
Sling Blade may be too scrupulously attentive to the rhythms and speech of the small-town South; it easily breaks the all-time record for use of the word reckon. But as incarnated in writer-director Thornton's laconic bass voice and wonderfully shambling gait, Karl is a memorable, affecting creature--so gentle he daren't sleep on an offered bed for fear of spoiling the room's perfect primness, so righteous he will consider killing to protect his adoptive family. Sling Blade meanders when Karl isn't driving it, but for the first half-hour and the last...
...such flavors as double chocolate and banana. The product gives consumers 25% of their daily calcium requirement and keeps retailers happy with a shelf life of nine months. "Here was an opportunity to take something traditionally thought of as a commodity and make it fun and dynamic," says April Thornton, director of new products at Pepsi. Don't look for a Cindy Crawford endorsement: at about 250 calories, Smooth Moos tops a can of Pepsi by 100 calories...
...James H. Quillen, R-Tenn. (1) Jack Reed, D-R.I. (2) Pat Roberts, R-Kan. (1) Charlie Rose, D-N.C. (7) Toby Roth, R-Wis. (8) Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo. (1) Gerry E. Studds, D-Mass. (10) Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J. (9) Ray Thornton, D-Ark. (2) Barbara F. Vucanovich, R-Nev. (2) Robert S. Walker, R-Pa. (16) Pat Williams, D-Mont. (at large) Charles Wilson, D-Texas (2) Bill Zeliff, R-N.H. (1) Dick Zimmer, R.-N.J. (12) *Lost primary this year...