Word: vixen
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...VIXEN IS SORT OF LIKE A WITCH...
This time, it ain?t no sweet "Melissa." Unlike March?s viral vixen, which produced little more than some brief mayhem and an entertaining manhunt, ExploreZip isn?t a virus, it?s a worm ?- and quite an insidious one. Although structurally different, it's spreading as fast as the lightning-quick Melissa and doing a lot more damage. From large corporations such as Boeing and IBM to smaller, ironic targets such as antivirus software maker Symantec (and in countries from Germany to Israel, where it is believed to have originated), ExploreZip is entering computers through their e-mail systems...
...wrought-iron gates to Paramount Pictures, dragging on an American Spirit cigarette and smiling at the video monitor. Lynch is shooting a scene for Mulholland Drive, his new 1-hr. series expected to premiere this fall on ABC. The show follows two women--one an innocent, the other a vixen with a shady past--whose lives intersect in contemporary Hollywood. As the cameras roll, a Yellow taxi drives up, depositing an ethereal-looking blond at the gate. She pauses breathlessly, then struts through--on her way, she hopes, to becoming a star. Six takes later, Lynch is satisfied...
...hangs around long enough and becomes familiar enough, it takes on the quality of a melodrama, pushed along by characters that quickly harden into recognizable types. Depending on your point of view, Linda Tripp is a double-crossing shrew or a courageous whistle blower. Monica Lewinsky is either a vixen or a violated innocent. (An innocent in thong underwear, but still.) And Lucianne? At a minimum, she is forever sealed in history as the New York City literary agent who uttered to her friend the most ruinous sentence of the Clinton presidency: "Linda, buy a tape recorder...
...good at it. No wonder he likes phone sex with you... You're just like a little Marilyn Monroe vixen. I--I would--I, I, I know, in my wildest dreams, I could never have phone...