Word: hr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vampires, was shot in 1915, the year of The Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith's epic, a masterpiece of film form, creaks today. But Les Vampires, with thrill upon stunt upon criminal chicanery, is as modern as Rush Hour or The X Files. In Waterbearer Films' ravishing 6-hr. 40-min. video edition, restored by David Shepard with its color tinting and long-lost intertitles, Les Vampires is revealed as the prototype and apotheosis of every hurtling action film and devious crime thriller to follow...
...wins will probably never be reached without a major shift in the nature of the game. Also in this category is Nolan Ryan's 5,714 strikeouts. Schilling, Clemens and Johnson have virtually no chance to break this record. On the other hand, Hank Aaron's 755-HR record is within reach of several current sluggers...
...next year, Motorola will give folks something new to covet: its V-series phone (approximately $500 to $600) will be a tad shorter, 25% narrower and a third lighter than the Startac. The best news: the V-series' talk time reaches a comfortable 160 min., with up to 160 hr. of standby...
...Bill Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan to the offices of the new lawyer Jordan had handpicked. There she got help in drafting a sworn affidavit denying that she had ever had a sexual relationship with Clinton. Even as Lewinsky met with Jordan, the President was on a dizzying 36-hr. tour of Bosnia, visiting American G.I.s in Sarajevo. Did Lewinsky try to reach him while he was abroad? Less than a month later, Clinton was asked by lawyers for Jones whether he had been in telephone contact with Lewinsky from Bosnia. Under oath he answered, "No." Then the lawyers asked...
...game really slowed? In 1975, the Elias Sports Bureau says, the average length of the American League game was 2 hr. 25 min. Last year it ran 2 hr. 57 min. (National League games run about 10 min. shorter, probably because the American League's designated-hitter rule has removed the pitcher from the batting order; pitchers usually make for quick outs.) That half an hour is a huge increase, yet it fails to measure the agony of those games in which the earth's rotation seems to stop, in which the stillness is broken only by the faint sounds...