Word: greate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offering educational and camping programs, and are seeing a boom in attendance, according to the National Council of Churches. The organization points to the highly competitive market for Vacation Bible School materials, with 20 publishers offering dozens of snazzy programs that are designed to appeal to kids' interests. "A Great Bibleland Dig," for instance, combines archaeology with Bible stories...
...telling myself I'd buy just one more disposable to tide me over. That was two years ago. Since then I've gone through a dozen, guiltily toting them to weddings, Caribbean vacations and weekends in the country. But I'm sick of grainy pictures that should have been great and puny flashes that make a walk in the woods look like a midnight stroll. And after paying $15 a pop for that many disposables, I'm know I'm not saving any money...
Emerging valiantly from the debris are the two young stars. Dunst, 17, has grown up smartly before the camera; she has poise, wit and great dimples. Richards, 27 but plausibly teenish, uses her huge doll eyes (somehow calculating and dazed) and her brilliant teeth (all 50 or 60 of them, lined up like chorines ready to please the sugar daddies) to make Becky both the apotheosis and the parody of a precocious beauty-contestant pro. These are actresses worth watching, performances worth saving...
...testing the waters for a merger with the National Enquirer? Why put a naked pair of screen lovers on the cover that has borne the likenesses of truly important world leaders, great scientists, athletes and entrepreneurs? DAVID L. WALLACH Bridgeville...
DIED. STAN DURWOOD, 78, ebullient creator of the now ubiquitous multiplex movie theater; of esophageal cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Durwood opened his first fully planned multiplex in 1962--with The Great Escape playing on both screens. Now the company he ran, AMC Entertainment, operates 218 theaters (and 2,729 screens) in 23 states and several countries including Spain and Japan. "Our goal is to say to the customer, 'We love ya,' " he said in 1996. "We want to make your stay pleasant...