Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last interglacial period was warmer than this one and also, arguably, more unstable. It is conceivable that the greenhouse effect could heat up the planet for a while but then trigger changes that could plunge the earth into a sudden chill. And for an idea of what a mini-Ice Age might be like, just imagine last week's cold wave lasting all winter, every winter -- for the next thousand years...
Better yet, watch Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) face a similar problem in To Play the King, a wickedly entertaining BBC mini-series that has just debuted on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for a four-week run. Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo...
...Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered The Gospel According to St. Ann, a four-hour mini-series starring Ann-Margret as a self-made sports mogul. For NBC he is developing a Tom Clancy mini-series and several sitcoms, including a comic version of Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte and a Love, American Style with animals...
Workers at almost all of the businesses in the mini-mall give partial blame for poor sales to the usual post-holiday downswing in business...
...Doral Inn hotel to conduct a one-night-only seminar called Recovering from Dysfunctional Families. The class, which costs $39 to attend, is offered by the Learning Annex, a New York City adult- education center that provides urbanites with such courses as Start Your Own Cheese Business or Mini Goat Farm and Design Your Own Jewelry: Bead Stringing. Among the 70 seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held -- are a few hippie-ish girls, a handful of senior citizens and a long-nailed Whoopi Goldberg look...