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...small-screen nostalgiacs, I'll add a final blast of trivia. These two shows had ancestors in TV's Stone Age. Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts was a competition of little-known singers getting the fragrance of national publicity (Patsy Cline was a contestant who became a star after appearing there). And Arthur Murray's Dance Party showcased the terpsichoreal skills of the dour impresario, his wife Katherine and a host of graceful semi-pros. From the talents displayed way back then came not only American Idol and Dancing With the Stars but their movie siblings, High School Musical...
...Construction of our brand new hospital building, next-door to the current one, was completed about the time that "the Boss" was first able to take some steps. The building was tremendous. Gleaming opulence made of the finest stone and metal, its magnificence was perhaps best felt in the majestic entrance and lobby, which soared four stories high. We decided to walk him over...
...space the size of an Eliot common room, but slightly more rectangular. A third of the space is occupied by the bar—with fairly decent beers on tap, though nothing spectacular—while a teeny stage sits at the far end of the room. A few stone toad idols sit above the bartender’s head, prompting a dude sitting near me to tell me about this time in college when he caught and domesticated a toad. If you put a piece of rice paper on a toad and poke it, it will secrete a milky...
...could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series." SHARON STONE, actress, at the premiere of Basic Instinct 2, on the possibility of expanding the nudity-filled movie franchise...
...imperative to link cause and effect derived directly from our earliest hominid ancestors' discovery of tools as many as 2 million years ago. The ability to fashion a flint spear, he speculates, promoted a kind of causal thinking that was beyond other species: take a certain type of stone, hit it in just such a way, and it will leave a cutting edge. The later development of another tool, language, enabled early humans to explain the technology, and in the evolutionary twinkling of an eye we found ourselves genetically wired to seek a cause for every effect...