Word: butte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past decade has moved from European literature (Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), to West End theater (Michael Frayn's Noises Off), to quality American pop: it is at the core of The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, MTV's Beavis and Butt-head and the new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Last Action Hero. Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Fascist...
Larry Sanders' "real life" is shot on film, his talk show on videotape. The media seams in MTV's Beavis and Butt-head are both more and less stark. The title characters are animated figures, a pair of teenage slackers (imagine Wayne and Garth desentimentalized), but the live-action Faith No More and Aerosmith videos interlarded with Beavis and Butt-head's pro-and-con commentaries ("For a big muscular dude he sure sings like a wuss") are nothing if not cartoonish. "There are moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them...
...here comes the really inspired part -- every 10 minutes or so, circumstances require him to kick a little butt. This he does with a panache that ensures the yipping pleasure of all the young males in the house and, since this heroic figure is also a really cute guy, the gurgling approval of their dates...
...album opens with the title track, one of those kick-butt anthems of territorial superiority favored by old lions when the cubs get unruly. "The time has come to air my feelings," Charles proclaims. "There's just so much confusion going down." When the wary listener hears, "You got to stand out from the crowd," preparations begin immediately to endure one of those tauntingly defiant My Way-style apologias. But after this initial flirtation, Charles goes his own way, and My World becomes instead a guardedly optimistic paean to human potential. It's damn near Jacksonesque (Michael...
...Falcone (2), Butt (2), Mertick, Fox. DP: Holy Cross 1. Harvard 2. Los: Holy Cross 8. Harvard 9. 2B: Hill (2). Brissette. 3B: None. HR: None. CS: Raldson. Fox, Weissman, Levy. CORNELL IP M R ER BB SO Liebler. L 5 6 4 3 4 3 McElligott 3 4 2 1 1 0 HARVARD IP M R ER BB SO Davidson, W (1-2) 6 5 0 0 0 7 Allen 1 1 0 0 2 1 Mitchelf 1 1 2 2 3 0 Cicero 1 1 0 0 0 0 WP: Mitchell. PB: None. HBP: None. HBP: None...