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DIED. Joseph Ungaro, 76, journalist whose question at a 1973 editors' conference--about whether Richard Nixon had accurately reported his income taxes--prompted Nixon to reply "I am not a crook," the line that forever haunted him; in South Kingstown...
...campaigning? Did Richard Nixon grow his shadowy stubble, or did his shadowy stubble grow him? The British weekly New Scientist has touched on this, exploring what is known as nominative determinism--the common case of people whose names echo their jobs. There is the director of penal reform Frances Crook, the marine biologist Steven Haddock. American culture has been rife with such synchronicity--pitcher Rollie Fingers, Senator George McGovern. "Are these whimsicalities of chance," Carl Jung once asked, "or the suggestive effects of the name...
...Chinese faces, not a single foreigner appears. Inside, the sisters work with some 35 foreign designers, dressed as if ready for a night out in New York City. Fiona, in a blousy navy silk jacket and sky-high heels, balances an Hermès Birkin in the crook of her arm as she makes adjustments on samples of raincoats. Tia, in a silvery bolero thrown over a gray cotton tank and white pants, is finishing up a resort collection inspired by Lulamae Barnes, the poor Southern child bride who goes on to become Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Bouquets...
...NAME IS EARL SEASON 1 CRIME MAY NOT pay, but doing good is no picnic either, as petty crook Earl Hickey (Jason Lee, below right) learns in this sitcom. Hit by a car after winning the lottery, he decides to repair his Karma by righting every wrong he's done. With naive teddy-bear brother Randy (Ethan Suplee, above left), his feral, conniving ex-wife (Jaime Pressly) and her sweetly spacey new husband (Eddie Steeples), he ineptly cuts a swath of penance through his small town. Earl is a cartoony fella--he perpetually looks as if he just lost...
...wait that long to get your crime-and-fraternal-struggle-in-working- class-America fix, there's Showtime's Brotherhood, which debuts in June. That drama, which features two brothers--one a rising politician, the other a small-time crook--is set in Providence, R.I., but also explores fate and circumstance in the mournful, urban-blighted Northeast of a generation ago. "Without getting too highfalutin," says creator Blake Masters about the trend toward villain protagonists, "post-9/11, we hit some of our darkest days, and now we're in a war that will go on for years against...