Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francisco. In the experiment, 20 severely ill AIDS patients were randomly selected; half were prayed for, half were not. None were told to which group they had been assigned. Though Targ has not yet published her results, she describes them as sufficiently "encouraging" to warrant a larger, follow-up study with 100 AIDS patients...
...comedies, Xeroxing successes like Aladdin for a predictable billion-dollar gross in the theatrical and video markets. But the artists at Disney's animation unit--it should be called the ambition unit--have bigger eyes. They figure that where they go, into melodrama or political sagas, the audience will follow. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (who made Beauty and the Beast) have splashed the broody emotions of Victor Hugo's epic novel with a bold, dazzling palette. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas) have written the largest, most imposing score...
...doesn't so much shape national opinion as locate it, then wraps his arms around whatever he has found and holds on for dear life. What he sometimes lacks is those things that help define influence: a vision that inspires people to shed their doubts and follow his lead, an ability to connect with people and shape the way they look at the world. This is why the same man who can order troops to Haiti can still lose a floor vote in Congress on health care...
...famous opening--the skyward clarinet glissando--is given a new twist. Roberts instead starts the piece with what he calls "a series of improvised statements," the first being the forlorn sound of a single banjo. Gershwin's 1920s piano rolls have set a high standard for pianists to follow, but Roberts' performance on this CD adds some graceful verve. His fleet-fingered improvisations--constant, probing, thoughtful--provide color to an already multihued work without seeming merely ornamental. After hearing Roberts, we sense that there are many more shades of blue than we previously imagined...
...professor and lsd guru who encouraged the rebellious 1960s generation to "turn on, tune in, drop out"; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, California. A cyberspace enthusiast, he turned his battle with cancer ("the beginning of the most fascinating part of my life") into a public event that fans could follow on his Website. His last lucid conversation was apparently with author William Burroughs, to whom he said, "I hope someday I'm as funny...