Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TWISTER (opens May 10). Second-unit ingenuity spurs a destructo-fest, as naughty tornados send cars crashing and rip the roofs off barns. One suspects that, as a movie monster, this killer twister may be a dud: it has no personality and can't sneak up on you. But with the heft of Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and Jan de Bont (Speed) behind it, Twister could suck hot air and still gross a quick $100 million...
...millennium approaches, so this rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts is all the more disturbing. We can't get enough news about tombs discovered in Egypt and terra-cotta warriors unearthed in China, yet the good people of Boston now see the Green Monster in Fenway not as the Great Wall it is, but as some big slab of Sheetrock that can be transferred to a new site with better access, easier parking, more seats, and, oh yes, more corporate suites...
...experiment." He has launched into space a satellite containing a human named Mike (head writer Michael J. Nelson) and the automatons Tom Servo (operated and voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (Beaulieu again) and forced them to watch bad films: Ed Wood classics like Bride of the Monster and stuff way, way worse, like the 1965 Attack of the the Eye Creatures--a movie so inept that its makers put the word the twice in the title. Mike and the 'bots crack wise; we laugh; that's about it. This simple, supple premise allows for pop-cultural japes...
...worth from the efforts, knowledge and ingenuity of its employees. These companies could not have grown without them, and will not experience any meaningful progress by getting rid of good workers. Corporations may have bought themselves some quick profits by slashing payroll, but in return they have created a monster in the form of employees who no longer have any level of dedication or loyalty to their bosses. After the payroll cuts are over, a company will have to give back to its workers far more than it gained. For many years employees gave their blood, sweat and tears...
Harvard did have its moments, led by two hits from junior Mike Hochanadel and a deep single in the second inning by center Dennis Doble off the famous Fenway Park "Green Monster" in left field...