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...voted for you for Senate when I was living in New York. Why should I vote for you for President?" a young woman named Hillary Sinn asked in Council Bluffs. The candidate proceeded to unreel her résumé--the years of advocacy for children; the years working on education policy when "Bill" was Governor of Arkansas; the health-care, uh, experience in "Bill's" first term as President; the eight years in the White House; the 82 countries visited; the fact that she was "running as a woman but not only as a woman"; that she'd had extensive experience...
Trailers for big-event movies, which can appear in theaters up to a year before release, have become big events themselves. The new trailer for George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, is scheduled to unreel in theaters this week after a premiere on television. The Fox network (sibling of the movie studio releasing the film in May) slated the trailer's broadcast between The X-Files and Malcolm in the Middle on March 10, thereby luring Star Wars devotees to the network just to catch...
...watch is, to all appearances, an ordinary timepiece. But tucked into a small cylinder that blends with its gray titanium casing is a 2-ft. antenna. To activate the beacon, you unscrew the cap and unreel the antenna. Approved for use in Europe and Asia (and, pending FCC approval, in the U.S.), the $5,000 Swiss watch also keeps pretty good time...
...take a risk?" Saying this, I smiled, but she seriously thought that it was a plan. She told me that earlier, at 3 a.m., they had made a videotape of the President's statement. They had used Anatoli's camera. She told me they were going to unreel the tape from the cassette and cut it into several pieces ((to make it easier to hide)). She said, "So I will wrap the tape in a small ball and give it to you in the evening. But please, don't keep it on you. You may be frisked...
When the body of Carla Tate washes up a few miles south of Santa Barbara, $ the flashbacks unreel in A Hollywood Life (Simon & Schuster; 320 pages; $19.95). The movie star, nee Karen Teitel, makes her screen debut in infancy, moves on to kiddie westerns and eventually becomes a major cinema celebrity. En route she passes through every Hollywood vicissitude and fashion, from child abuse to blacklisting to Vietnam protests to exercise tapes. She also manages to collect a series of husbands and lovers, most notably movie executive Jack Markel, who has all the Hollywood requisites: he is 30 years older...