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...politico who wrote I, Che Guevara 35 Uris' -- 18 36 Jack's successor 37 First Burmese Prime Minister 38 Donald's Reform Party rival 39 Sgts. and cpls. 40 Theme-park name 42 The NAACP's Mfume 44 Mongoose's foe 45 Karmann -- (old Volkswagens) 46 Vittles 47 Weevil's home...
...Losey: "We have to weigh the costs and benefits [of Bt corn], then decide as a society what we want." But that decision may already have been made. The Bt gene is now regularly spliced into potatoes (as protection against the Colorado potato beetle) and cotton (against the boll weevil...
Starr turned over rock after slimy rock. No roaches like the ones we met in Watergate or Irangate scurried out. But he did find a weevil of a sexual indiscretion. With the impatience of a Kurosawa, he shouted to his minions to roll the camera. He zoomed in on the weevil; it turned into a Godzilla; and he unveiled it to the public. The production cost was dizzying millions if you account for the man-hours lost in looking at the weevil morphed into a monster. NARAYAN RAMACHNADER Chennai, India...
Ever since, even after he got his teeth fixed, Lott has advanced himself by assembling such snaggletoothed majorities. As the House Republican whip, or chief vote counter, during the early 1980s, Lott helped forge alliances with both the Boll Weevil Democrats, who were ignored by their party's liberal leaders, and with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass...
...visit lasted all of 10 hours) and then Los Angeles. Together they wrote Thornton's eye-catching role as the white-trash murderer in One False Move. In this heralded heist film, shot in Arkansas in 1991, Thornton is never scarier than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three's Company refugee who gets a career makeover as a gentle gay man in Sling Blade. "If Horton Foote and David Lynch ran at each other at 100 m.p.h. and collided...