Word: carles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Besides Mars Attacks! (a gleefully nihilistic vaudeville that promises to play Dr. Strangelove to ID4's relatively docudramatic Fail-Safe) and the inevitable sequels and remakes of Alien, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Lost in Space, you'll see big-budget versions of thoughtful sci-fi novels: Carl Sagan's Contact (directed by Robert Zemeckis), Michael Crichton's Sphere (Barry Levinson) and Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven...
...firsts; the 1920s was a decade of bests, as Europe produced films and filmmakers that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...
...sentimental highlight of the track-and-field program may be the men's long jump. If Carl Lewis makes the team and Cuba's formidable Ivan Pedroso isn't recovered from a recent operation, the grand old man of American track can collect his fourth straight long-jump gold medal, which would tie him with Al Oerter, who had four straight in the discus...
...Reno and Holly McPeak, the powerful U.S. duo who break up with each other almost as often as they win tournaments, are on their way to gold unless the Brazilians stop them. Sinjin Smith, the granddaddy of the beach at 39, will try for a medal with his partner, Carl Henkel...
There are those who think Johnson lacks a certain charisma. All right, it's Carl Lewis. The popular sprinter and long jumper was quoted last year on the lack of excitement in track, saying, "Michael Johnson, he doesn't have it." To which Johnson says, unexcitedly, "Well, Carl and I don't get along very well...