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...disdainful or incapable of severe highs and lows. She wasn't one to spit out rapid-fire dialogue, a vocal reticence that would have limited her roles even in a color-blind Hollywood. Saucy comedy, of the sort Jean Harlow personified, was out, as was the scalding, wiseacre melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck-style. Wong could flash a regal hauteur and, when called for, that sensuality. She could have played grand-dame roles of the sort essayed by Garbo - she certainly could match the Swede for fascination, and self-fascination - but not, say, Marlene Dietrich, whose awareness of her power over...
...their part, the scientists couldn't be more pleased. "The images just blew us away," says Dijanna Figueroa, a grad student in marine biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Nobody has ever seen deep-sea pictures as sharp as these. Among the wondrous creatures they spotted: a white octopus with earlike flaps known as a Dumbo octopus, an anglerfish with what look like primitive hands and a spindly 11-armed sea star. Some were previously unknown to science. "I came away asking new questions," says Figueroa. Viewers will come away in awe. --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported...
...paying is steep. "We are skeptical that simply going from $55 billion to $65 billion in revenues really changes all that much," wrote J.P. Morgan analyst John Faucher in a note to investors last week. We'll know when the honeymoon ends. --With reporting by David Bjerklie, Barbara Kiviat and Dody Tsiantar/ New York
...Setting the Record Straight Bush Family Heritage ? The genealogy chart "Paths of Power," showing the lineage of the Bush family, included President Franklin Pierce under the section headed "Distant Relatives" [Dec. 27-Jan. 3]. We said in error that he was an "ancestor of Barbara Bush's grandfather Scott Pierce." Franklin Pierce was a distant cousin of Scott Pierce, not his ancestor...
PARTY ON The First Couple will hit three dinners, the Texas State Society's Black Tie & Boots Ball and all nine official balls, including one for active-duty military. Jenna and Barbara Bush will headline a concert for the younger set. Among the many unofficial luncheons and parties: the facetious Billionaires for Bush Ball...