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...proctor at the scene said the three students told the police that they had gone down into the grate because they were "curious...
...press can be an uneasy tribe to live with--curious, demanding and persistent. But adversaries can be just as persistent and demanding, so that truces are never possible. Ronald Reagan long ago learned to control how he appears on TV and minimize encounters with the press. Now the Reagan people are mounting an offense to stop leaks to reporters...
...Cuisinart and purees them into The Latest Thing. We are the '30s gone hip, the '40s with leaner muscles, the '50s in Reeboks, the '60s with no sweat. And if movies are the gilded reflection of American popular culture, then a half-century of movies about teenagers traces a curious evolution of the adolescent spirit. The Andy Hardy series gave us romance without passion. The James Dean movies of the '50s offered passion without pleasure. In the "beach-party" pictures of the early '60s, teenagers got pleasure but no sex; and in the recent gross-outs of Porky...
Despite the sweltering heat, curious crowds of reporters packed the pink courtroom in Port-au-Prince day after day. Armed soldiers in steel helmets surrounded the defendant, who sat erect, dressed in a business suit, seemingly impervious to both the temperature and the allegations against him. Retired Army Colonel Samuel Jeremie, 52, who was once a close aide to former President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had been charged with two counts of murder, each punishable by ten years in prison. He was also accused of military misconduct, a crime under Haitian law that could lead...
Along time ago, in a conference room far, far away . . . it was ordained that sword-and-sorcery movies would be the Next Big Thing. Just imagine crossing the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas! Mythic reverberations! Megabucks! Didn't work. The crossbreeding produced curious offspring: the low- birth-weight Dragonslayer, the gnarled Krull, the sepulchral The Keep. Most 1980s moviegoers found the landscapes of these films too remote, the quests too familiar, the special effects too rudimentary--no laser blades here, just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales...