Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having enlisted the audience's sympathies, and its knowing nods that the first playlet shows what life is really like, Sherman reveals in the second half that Table is not reality but invention -- the plot, in fact, of a famous '60s novel that a Hollywood producer proposes to contort into an MTV- influenced musical. Sherman's sprawling, ambitious piece has any number of themes, most powerfully the idea that art comforts us by letting us focus on microcosmic disasters so that we can ignore the global ones. Dominating an exceptional cast are Rupert Graves as the young artist...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
...Paramount were in fact successful, the deal would leave it with a heavy debt burden. Although Davis has vowed he would not dismember Time after an acquisition, the pressure to sell assets might grow in response to the need to make large interest payments. In raising the stakes, Paramount acknowledged that its takeover proposal is conditional to, among other things, Time calling off its acquisition of Warner and rescinding the share exchange already executed and on Paramount's ability to obtain adequate financing. To cover the cost of acquiring Time's stock and meet merger-related expenses, Paramount said...
...being an owner, Rose may say he is no party to broad discretions and unfettered agreements, but distancing himself from any baseball tradition might be difficult. It is Rose's place in that tradition, the fact that he is an embodiment of his game, that makes these circumstances so compelling...
...other side holds that Mapplethorpe's work is pornography posing as art. His works, this faction contends, should be shown privately, preferably in a red-light district. In fact, some of Mapplethorpe's work is so graphic that if authorities had chosen to do so, they could have prosecuted him for child pornography, which has no First Amendment protection...