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...pillow, singing the Oro supplex, is a bit much. But the production boasts tremendous visual appeal, thanks to a wonderfully spare set by Helen Shaw '98, spiffy costumes by Jessica Jackson '99 and--especially at the play's beginning and end--skillful and tricky lighting, designed by Alan Symonds...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: a bloody bacchae | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity anchor Kevin Hollander (Alan Alda, in a stonier version of the egomaniacal media mogul he played in Crimes and Misdemeanors). The worldly, ambitious Brackett is earger to regain his position at the network. So when he finds himself locked in a museum with unstable gunman Sam Baily (John Travolta at his raunchiest), a class...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mad City' Plays Up Media Paranoia | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

First step: The Real World: The Ultimate Insider's Guide. As if the TV show didn't afford enough pictures of these lovable teens and twentysomethings in various states of undress, James P. Solomon '87 and Alan Carter offer a book which compiles every conceivable piece of information on the 42 young people who sold their souls--or more precisely, six months of their lives--to MTV. From complete personal profiles to in-depth analyses of seminal Real World events (i.e., the firing of Montana from the After-School Program in the Boston season), Solomon and Carter dive headlong into...

Author: By Josh N. Lambert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some Literature for the Illiterate: The MTV Generation Hits the Books | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...your post!" they ordered. Tsibliyev repeated his request a few minutes later, and was told again, "Stay at your post!" At NASA, once the sworn rival of the Soviet space program, such an order would probably not stand, not when the pilots being commanded were self-styled cowboys like Alan Shepard or Gordon Cooper. But the Russian program was a different beast, and cosmonauts learn early that the word of the ground is all but inviolable. Tsibliyev, despite himself, stayed at his post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BAD DAY IN SPACE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...thought Alan Greenspan's was the hand that ruled the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash Potato | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

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