Word: banging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago, Aleen Zimberoff Bayard is one of the growing number of people returning to social activism but demanding "more bang for the buck." As Bayard says firmly, "People don't tolerate giveaways anymore." In 1985 Bayard and several friends started the Entertainment Action Team, whose mission is to "end hunger in Chicago through self-sufficiency." Says she: "It makes such a difference to me that I'm doing something. The team is one example of how young, socially minded people are rewriting the Reagan message." The team is auctioning off part-ownership of an Arabian horse to raise money...
...about how stars die but also about how the universe might expire. A debate is raging over how much "dark matter" -- stuff invisible to astronomers -- exists in the universe. If there is sufficient dark matter, its gravity will be enough to force the universe, still expanding from the Big Bang, to slow, stop and fall together again in a "Big Crunch." If the necessary matter does not exist, the universe will expand forever...
...that really provides the bang for the buck. Zeffirelli and Costume Designer Dada Saligeri offer a regal gold and mother-of-pearl panoply: high atop a throne in the far reaches of the cavernous stage perches the black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...
...taking a date to if you like them. But the only date Dewitt had on his mind was his date with destiny--and he had the makings right there with his amazing new transformation potion! Trembling with scientific curiousity, he ladled out a portion of the special goo, and bang...
...based on William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel) rarely make it to the screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds...