Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Falwell has made an important break, one he compares in historical importance with his baptizing blacks in the early 1960s (which many whites in his church opposed) and his founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. "Homosexuals are the last pariahs in this society," he says. "We've got to reach...
...definitions of a miracle and a Hollywood sleeper hit are not very far apart; both involve an extraordinary contradiction of what seems to be an ironclad natural order. Last week studio executives had a choice of interpretations as they cast their eyes over the weekend grosses. The No. 1 and No. 2 movies in the U.S. were, unsurprisingly, Fight Club and Double Jeopardy. But No. 10 was very unusual indeed. Not only had The Omega Code, by an unknown independent called Gener8Xion Entertainment, grossed $2.4 million in three days, but it had done so in a mere 304 theaters, yielding...
...going to play any more characters with whom I was totally familiar," she said. That was then. Two years ago, Moore and VALERIE HARPER tried to sell ABC on a sitcom reprising their Mary Tyler Moore Show characters. The network passed, but it green-lighted a movie, and last week Moore and Harper were in New York City filming Mary & Rhoda, which will air during the February sweeps. In the movie, Mary and Rhoda Morgenstern reunite two decades after leaving Minneapolis. They're single again, with Felicity-esque daughters. If viewers tune in, they may even get a regular slot...
Lainie Kazan and Iggy Pop will serenade you with Auld Lang Syne as you and yours suck the last dregs from your jeroboam of Roederer Cristal and giant tube worms and deep-sea shrimp (tres joli!) caper about the volcanic sulfide chimneys outside your stateroom's bay windows...
...most excitement anyone here can remember since the days when the brothels and taverns of Keystone lured coal miners on payday and when trains stopped here to give G.I.s one last fling on their way to World War I. But the town's most enduring legend is its 95-year-old bank. As it boasts on the side of its building, the institution is "time-tried, panic-tested," a survivor of the Great Depression...