Word: hamburger
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...Their magical mystery tour is related in straight-ahead chronological order: Lennon growing up on Penny Lane (yes, that's really where he lived for a time); John and Paul meeting as teens and later hooking up with Harrison and then Starr; the early days of the band in Hamburg, Germany; and the making of each one of their albums. There are some interesting tidbits and stories along the way. Lennon (his quotations are drawn from various published and unpublished sources) says the legend of his rough background is untrue: he was "brought up to be a nice lower-middle...
...carry you to Meet the Parents. It is the work of director Jay Roach, whose Austin Powers movies were intermittently funny but not what anyone would call intricately constructed machines. What those movies needed was a couple of skilled tool-and-die makers like Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, who wrote this screenplay. And a bunch of actors, led by Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who understand that palpable reality will always trump frenzied fantasy when it comes to getting laughs...
...bear's nose. They were lying in a culvert, wrapped in a T shirt smothered with molasses. She was hungry. Why not tuck in? As soon as she did, a metal grate slammed shut behind her. She clawed at the cage, to no avail. Trapped in a backyard in Hamburg, N.J., all she could do was hunker down and wait...
...which sounds perfectly unreasonable to Hamburg resident Ethel Martin, 88, shaking her head as she watched Eriksen and his assistant Mike Madonia remove the 140-lb. sow they had trapped in her backyard with the shirtful of doughnuts. "I've lived here 62 years, never seen bears this much. One ripped off a window screen trying to get in. I was hospitalized with frayed nerves the last time it happened," says the widow...
...worse was yet to come. On the other side of the world, in the offices of the German newspaper Abendblatt in Hamburg, system administrators watched in horror as the virus gobbled up 2,000 digital photographs in their picture archive. In Belgium ATMS were disabled, leaving citizens cashless. In Paris cosmetics maker L'Oreal shut down its e-mail servers, as did businesses throughout the Continent. As much as 70% of the computers in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden were laid low. The companies affected made up a Who's Who of industry and finance, including Ford, Siemens, Silicon Graphics...