Word: minis
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...meters on a high note—and with some distance between opposing boats. Tenths of seconds change races; baseball innings, on the other hand, can last half an hour.Even though the Eastern Sprints and IRA Championships still sit a month away, each weekend plays out as a mini-championship. Harvard has just one shot at each opponent until a rematch at Lake Quinsigamond and another in Camden, N.J. It’s a veritable NCAA Tournament every weekend, culminating in a six-across frenzy that can cater to both upsets and the domination of perennial favorites in May. Baseball...
...events of 9/11, like a nightmare that haunts the waking, have permeated the media. Not just the all-news channels but also books, plays, songs. Michael Moore's political take, Fahrenheit 9/11, scared up $119 million at the domestic box office, and ABC is preparing a mini-series based on The 9/11 Commission Report, with Stephen Root as terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke and Harvey Keitel as John O'Neill, the FBI's al-Qaeda sleuth who died in the World Trade Center carnage. Flight 93, a TV movie about the same events shown in United 93, reaped...
...closer, does “Fury” one better in the funk department. Prince channels the spirit of James Brown and delivers a gritty call-and-response vocal performance over the jazzy stylings of a killer horn section. A number of bravura instrumental solos punctuate the six-minute mini-epic, each endeavoring to top the previous in terms of sheer technical prowess. It’s far and away the most exhilarating track on the album and easily the most fun thing Prince has recorded in a decade. And what would a Prince record be without a salacious slow...
...Taylor financed the campaigns of several loyalists who ended up in parliament, says Corrine Dufka, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. "Once people see him on television, isolated and removed, it starts to demystify him," says Liberia's Labor Minister Samuel Koffi Woods. "It's only then that the mini warlords who are still here will understand that they too can be held accountable...
...early 1960s, Curtis pitched a campy soap set on a desolate Maine estate and centered on a vampire and other gothic creatures. It became the cult hit Dark Shadows, which ran on ABC from 1966 to '71. Later he produced and directed two of the best-rated mini-series in history: The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance--starring Robert Mitchum, above with Curtis--for which he won an Emmy...