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...been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent three days early in the week with Joel from Survivor, an executive from the CBS soap-opera division and Eddie and JoBo, Chicago's Bumpin' B96 morning team, whittling the contestants down to 10 semifinalists...
...Like a fox. Opera Software is not only surviving but thriving. For the past five years the company has been producing a small but fast and nimble browser to rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. Opera's eponymous product has received rave reviews, and the Norwegians haven't spent a dollar on marketing.?"Opera's awesome stability and speed make it a worthwhile download," wrote the computer and technology website cnet. The latest version, Opera 5.0 was downloaded 2 million times in the first month after its release in December. Not bad for a young Norwegian...
...waited - and I waited. I don't know for how long, but it must have been at least a year or two. The boring school hours came and went, the casual brutality continued, and my unhappy childhood days played themselves out like the least imaginative, longest-running soap opera on television...
...middle of the only thing that wasn't new about the '60s: its rediscovery of the American cinematic past. I saw "The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon" for the first time on the big screen, on a double bill. I saw "Coconuts" and "Night at the Opera" and "Day at the Races" all on the same evening. I saw "Shadow of a Doubt" and "Night of the Hunter" and "Beat the Devil" and "It Happened One Night...
...what makes stars of all of these big-selling artists." A major U.S. launch is set for Watson in April. Gore promises that "The Voice," as he is marketed, will be seen "everywhere in America. Basketball games, football games, unexpected places all over the country." Evidently not including opera houses...