Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bride, the lascivious king has chosen Anne's sexy (if dim-witted) sister, the new Queen Morgana Prettiface (Adam Feldman). "What Ho!" declares the valiant Princess Diana, who sports a leather Hamlet-style mini-skirt. "Oh, that ho," she says when she sees Prettiface...
...Mitchell Waldrop, and Complexity, by Roger Lewin; both authors formerly wrote for the journal Science. Like James Gleick's wildly successful 1987 book Chaos, each volume attempts to convey to lay readers the basics of the science as well as the excitement it is generating among its practitioners. (Mini-review: Waldrop's book, a straightforward, detailed account, succeeds admirably; Lewin's, a chatty personal memoir, does...
...although these "mini giants" are often the product of overzealous ESPN programming and are stomped out quickly in postseason play, they are still formidable opponents for their regular-season victims...
Roots had melodramatic excesses too, but they were transcended by the sweep and emotional resonance of the family saga. And the TV landscape has changed a lot. While the fictional mini-series seems stuck in a creative dead end, nonfiction is flourishing. From finely crafted American Experience documentaries to the video verite of Cops and 48 Hours, dramatic artistry & seems to reside more in the sensitive shaping of reality than in the sentimental shams of fiction. Witness Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson...
...ACTRESS ON TV SHUNS MAKEUP MORE defiantly than Helen Mirren. As London's detective chief inspector Jane Tennison, she wears every sag and wrinkle as if it were a combat medal. In Prime Suspect, last year's smashing PBS mini-series imported from Granada TV, Tennison struggled to prove her investigative mettle to male-chauvinist colleagues. That battle largely won, PRIME SUSPECT 2 (debuting Feb. 11 for four weeks) loses some of its feminist urgency. Here she investigates the murder of a black girl in a racially tense neighborhood and tries to keep her professional cool when a black detective...