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...soft spots. As much as one could criticize the romantic ballroom scene, I simply can't do it. Although expectedly cheezy, the slow waltz into adoration that Belle and the Beast have is enough to melt even the harshest heart. By the time the Beast--who previously climbed walls rather than stairs and who took almost a full minute to suppress his pride enough to ask "please"--tells Belle, "You're not my prisoner. You haven't been for a long time," one becomes ready to forgive and forget about the rest of the musical in exchange for that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disney Does Theater With Beauty | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...this summer's glut, here's a good opening scene: Panicked scientist testifies before congressional committee. A mountain-sized space rock, he warns, "could hit tomorrow and we wouldn't even know it was coming." Pan across committee members wearing concerned expressions. Cut to spinning newspapers with alarmist headlines. Melt to crowds of city dwellers gazing anxiously at the heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroid Disaster! | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

...globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from ancient ice samples, tree rings and coral fragments, they effectively pushed the temperature record back more than 600 years. Conclusion: the three warmest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Watch: It Hasn't Been This Sizzling In Centuries | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...and/or disease transmission, keep the stress on the down low by drinking herbal tea, checking in with UHS and never, ever telling Mom. With everyone blubbering about Spring Break mishaps, keep your attitude cool because a snowflake but tattoo is nothing to brag about--that shit don't melt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Luckily, Bobby Plump springs eternal in Hoosiers (1986). Based on that 1954 miracle and starring Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, and someone named Maris Valainis as team hero Jimmy Chitwood, this movie will melt the most cynical of hearts and have you out shooting baskets in the middle of the night. The institution it glorified is changed forever, but Hoosiers remembers. Watch it every spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Vs. Goliath | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

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