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...Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...
...their worst, some of these "cause" groups are totally the creations of direct-mail mills, which invent them for the very purpose of swallowing up most of the revenues in fund-raising costs and generating lists of contributors to sell. Even legitimate groups distort their agendas to emphasize "hot button" issues that will produce a better direct- mail response...
...room. "A direct hit!" he screams. A few feet away, his older brother sits in front of the TV, joy stick in hand, mesmerized by a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game. Bouncing in his seat to the beat of the programmed music, he keeps hitting the ATTACK button. "Yeah!" he finally cries. The enemies are all dead, and the game is won. All is well...
Good thing that coda, which is titled Gratitude, comes at the end of Frank Morgan's album Mood Indigo. Hearing it first and taking it at face value, casual listeners might figure they were in for an overdose of New Age good vibes and reach for the off button. That would mean missing out on some elegant alto sax, the kind of jazzmanship that combines the hip and the heartfelt in an accessible, up-to-the-minute sound...
Telling footnote for future histories of the American right, circa 1990: at the Conservative Political Action Conference this month, vendors offered eleven different Oliver North buttons and two Fawn Hall pins. One T shirt depicted a soldier with an assault rifle over the slogan WASTE THE RED BASTARDS. But any conservative who might have wanted a George Bush button for his lapel was out of luck. The nation's nominal Conservative in Chief was missing both in person and in likeness...