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...Love, has a blue-eyed bluesy aggressiveness that Barnett builds nicely from a throaty murmur into a dominatrix growl; it's an invitation to a dangerous liaison, delivered deadpan. A Simple I Love You has the same let's-fall-in-love message, this time sung not as a come-on but as a last chance for human contact. Barnett brings to this lovely plaint a maturity as amazing as Rimes' vocal virtuosity; she's the woman with a past, hoping for a future. It all promises well for her own future--we can imagine, say, a half-century from...
...adversity with a throaty, musical laugh. Sophisticated but not stuffy, a superior creature who never condescended, she proved the maxim that a woman should be, first and foremost, a lady. Her characters flummoxed leading men into stammering or spouting purple prose by wielding the comeback, the put-down, the come-on, all in one sprightly barrage. Cool Claudette. "I can say immodestly that I'm a very good comedienne," Colbert told TIME in 1981. "But I was always fighting that image too. I just never had the luck to play bitches...
Partly this is because Tyler is virtually the only young person around; everyone else is tired or bored or dying. But also because she truly is at ease with herself and the camera. Her allure can seem a come-on, but she's not a flaunter; she doesn't shake her beauty. And remember, she's only a kid (the credits for Heavy include an acknowledgment to "Miss Tyler's tutors"). Even now she takes an unselfconscious delight in the attention paid to her--in the '90s it's called poise. And that will serve her well if she ever...
...success, Akimoto and other cable executives maintain, is to provide customers with local telephone service practically free of charge, a come-on that has worked well for cable companies in Britain. While the MPT is willing to allow cable firms to provide phone service, a big question remains: NTT, until now the monopoly provider of local phone service, is not eager to let the cable companies connect to its network. Its basic phone service already loses about $1.3 billion a year because the government sets the rates. In several recent decisions, the MPT has forced NTT to give its competitors...
Elsewhere, savvy investors might have smelled a rat earlier. But this was postcommunist Russia, where capitalism is wild, woolly and new. The come-on, in any event, had been slick and seductive: pervasive TV commercials that wafted visions of apartments in Paris and vacations in California, and preposterous returns of 2,000% annually with no minimum investment. With those tactics, it did not take long for 5 million Russians to pour money into the offices of the MMM investment firm, the country's biggest and best-known stock fund...