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...TAMING THE BEAST...
...Professors of monster classes wrestle with a frustrating and alienating circumstance. Some, however, have made heroic attempts to tame the beast-like class...
...lecture, but says he takes the lecture prep a step further to ensure that he feels truly energized when he faces the crowd. "I always take a half an hour before to get hyped up and get the adrenaline pumping," he says. When it comes to taming the beast, many professors ham up their acts to keep the kids awake and engaged. That's show business...
...fading images of nuclear war, which had the great advantage of plausibility. By comparison, most religious versions of Armageddon (the biblical episode) seem as unreal as Armageddon (the sci-fi film). Even most devout Christians don't expect that any time soon they will see the seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem on which to hang its visions of doom--the Y2K (that's the year...
...more dreaded or debated than a blown call late in a National Football League game. Coaches and players foam; league officials squirm; and frazzled fans dial the personality-disorder hotline called sports talk radio. Pro football, which made violence a Sunday virtue and Vegas the national bank, is the beast...