Word: unkindnesses
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Hearing these testimonials, a skeptical journalist is tempted to set up an 800 hot line for anyone with an unkind word to say about the actress, anonymity guaranteed. But there may be more urgent Hollywood news about Hunt. Yes, she's now a big star, winner of Emmy, Golden Globe and MTV Movie awards. But on the evidence, she is also a caring, clever person who loves her folks and her shaggy Samoyed dog Johnny, belongs to no cult, lives in the unchic San Fernando Valley, drives a boring black Volvo sedan, loves opera, listens to the dictates...
...close in one of those rituals of shared planetary theater: a joining of tragedy and gossip in universal soap opera. But whatever emotional residue lingered as the world dried its eyes, two slightly hard-edged questions presented themselves in another part of the brain. The questions were not necessarily unkind. They were churned up by the undercurrent of sadness and disgust and fatalism that ran through one's thoughts on hearing the news from Paris that night, and in the days that followed...
MCDONALD'S Maalox, please. Court victory causes indigestion. Judge agrees they're unkind to cows...
...into account when setting prices, but it's hard to know for sure that he isn't just being political. So I push him once more, asking about Pizzeria Uno's, California Pizza Kitchen and Bertucci's, hoping to stir up some anti-franchise zeal. But he has no unkind words about corporate pizza either, or at least resists the temptation to lash out against it. Frustrated as I am, I start to get consumed by the smell so I thank him and leave...
Bronson is almost as unkind to Lloyd Acheson, the chief executive of Omega Logic, the fictional middle-size firm caught between giant Intel and the upstart VWPC. Like the real-life executive Jim Clark, who left Silicon Graphics to co-found Netscape, Acheson bails out of the hardware-manufacturing business and co-founds "Everyware Corp." with Benoit. Clark, of course, became an instant Internet multimillionaire when Netscape went public. By the end of Bronson's tale, Acheson and Benoit too are "skipping the conventional second and third round financings...and gunning straight for a public offering...