Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the years, marine mammals have become big box office. Around the U.S., amusement parks and aquariums pack spectators into dolphin and killer-whale shows. Companies have organized whale-watching voyages and party-boat trips to feed wild dolphins. One promoter has even proposed an underwater birthing facility where dolphins would serve as "midwives" for human deliveries...
...Some sat seething by their telephones for as long as three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...
...that Murphy's worst idea is his own character. His box-office power having brought Paramount groveling to its knees, offering him any indulgence he wants, Murphy has come to fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny...
...campus. "We're on the short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint of historical style, "seems to call for a neo-Georgian classical box or something." Kinder and gentler, indeed...
...Kids on the Block are commercial product all right, right down to the heels of their felony flyers. Fast-food Princes, Jack-in-the-Box Jacksons, rappers with no nutritional value. Right. They're also pretty good and, of course, just plain pretty. Their just released Merry, Merry Christmas is a Yuletide celebration that sounds snappy while simultaneously evoking the innocent pleasures of mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This...