Word: daringness
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Created by the wife-husband team of Diane English and Joel Shukovsky (who have parlayed the show's success into a four-series development deal with cbs), Murphy Brown is cleverly written, but in a smug, soulless, metallic way. The characters are all Johnny one-notes, the satire of TV...
Their conclusion is entirely in keeping with the remarkable -- and in its way quite daring -- temper of the rest of their movie, which is both antiheroic and antiepic, and thus a departure from the generally undistinguished tradition of the sports biopic. It may be a departure from the expectations of...
50 YEARS AGO: TURNING POINT. Having surrendered to the Japanese, 72,000 gaunt, exhausted U.S. and Filipino troops marched to prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942. Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide...
Today, as the U.S. spearheads the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against Libya for not handing over two suspects in the bombing, Mrs. McKee wonders if Chuck's background contains the secret of why this plane was targeted. If her suspicions are correct, Washington may not be telling the entire story. Major...
These are heady days in the rarefied world of telescope making. Not since the 1934 casting of Mount Palomar's 5-m mirror -- a record size at the time -- has there been more innovation or competition to push the edge of possibility. In the clear air above Hawaii's Mauna...