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Usually, however, students merely glance at its cover--to see how the funky graphics have changed from the year before--and then tuck it away for safekeeping. Breaking the book's seal, many fear, would be a mistake comparable to Pandora's famous gaffe, for it would spell the immediate end to the carefree days of summer vacation...
...comes the script doctor. "They bring you in with the idea you're just going to do a nip and a tuck," Strick says. "They say it's two weeks' work on one character. Four months later, you're still on the picture." While on the job, you must be, in the words of talent agent Jeremy Zimmer, "an artist, a technician and a diplomat" -- jobs that may be mutually exclusive. The trick, Whedon says, is to "know how to please people without turning work into junk...
...last goal to the vaults for safe-keeping so that future generations might enjoy it as much as the assembled 2,539 did last night. On his knees and sliding toward the right of the goal, Martins still managed to pull the puck around Cornell goalie Andy Bandurski and tuck it just inside the left post...
...show which intentionally debunks its own rules. By establishing the basic parameters for the work of objects, it become inescapably obvious how blurred the lines between them are such that Henry Beck's London Underground diagram hang on equal footing with a classical statue and a walrus' tuck...
Actors who have been good all along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made much of an impression now excel: Lillian Garrett-Groag as a Indian captive, part wife and part slave; Katherine Hiler as two hillbilly girls and, especially, Jeanne Paulsen as the woman whose world was destroyed by mining and who finds salvation in spontaneous political courage...