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...pasty face and taped-up glasses, Walken skillfully combines the roles of the paranoid scientist and conservative father. His brief foray into the world of hookers and porn shops is a scream. Spacek is convincing as a perky housewife with secret drunken tendencies and a potential for a nervous breakdown. When they rejoice, they do the twist. Fortunately for the movie, they know when to perk up their Ozzie and Harriet act, and when to tone down as real people...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...Losing Rose and Laela against a post playerlike Grubbs does hurt you," Delaney-Smith said."Different players were instructed not to come offAutumn Braddock in the zone, but they bogged down.If you have a breakdown like that against a teamwhere Autumn Braddock is hot, you're going tolose...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Loses Road Pair | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...massive power outages. It's not the year's supply of dehydrated food in their basement or their stockpiles of canned chicken chow mein. It's the water bed. The collapse of public utilities is one of the big worries among the Y2K-anxious--meaning people concerned about the breakdown of everything because of the millennium bug that could lead to serious computer malfunction in the year 2000. (More on that later.) So the Eckharts bought Danielle a water bed. That way, in a pinch, they have an extra 300 gallons on hand. Danielle is a little nonplussed. "I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The World As We Know It? | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...cybermogul resembling Bill Gates figures as something like the Antichrist in Judgment Day 2000 by Richard Wiles, in which the breakdown of all computers leaves America vulnerable to terrorists with nuclear bombs in suitcases and a leftover Soviet doomsday machine called the Dead Hand. Wiles, 45, a onetime marketing director for Christian Broadcasting Network, believes God directed him to write his book. "In 12 months we'll know if I'm right," says Wiles. "If I'm wrong, the worst that will happen to me is I'll be tremendously embarrassed. If other people are wrong and don't listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The World As We Know It? | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...medication Broadway has needed most in recent weeks is Valium. As David Hare's new play, in which both Kidman and co-star Iain Glen appear briefly in the nude, prepared to transfer from London to New York City, trend-conscious theatergoers seemed headed for a nervous breakdown: the clamor for tickets exceeded anything in recent Broadway memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Room for Improvement | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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