Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientists. To escape the government agents, Martin shrinks the car so that it fits in the sewer. O'Hara, speeding away from a roto rooter, drives into somebody's toilet and suspense music fills the theater. The scene moves in slow motion: an extremely obese man opens the bathroom and slowly sits on the toilet. O'Hara and Martin turn their heads to each other, wearing the faces of horror at the realization that massive amounts of excrement are about to dumped on top of their car. The man on the toilet peruses the illuminating literature of Playboy magazine...
...world in full swing, cultural icons assault us with visions of the coming apocalypse, passing judgment on the last century of human progress and awaiting the Second Coming and the birth of the Antichrist. Codrescu's messiah, impressively, manages to surf the web, enjoy an orgasm, save humanity and open a restaurant all in time for Mardi Gras...
...Kalahari Kingdom?" Spend a few hours at the Franklin Park Zoo. You can trek through the Bongo Congo, converse with a snow leopard or try out the zoo's new addition: Its Outback trail which hosts kangaroos, wallabies and emus. Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Franklin Park Rd. 541-LION. Open daily...
...senior reporter Alain Sanders, who covered Blackmun during much of the Justice's career. "Early on he was viewed as second-rate, the Minnesota twin of Warren Burger," Sanders notes. "But over time he split with the Chief Justice, finding his own voice on the court." Indeed, ever an open mind, Blackmun reversed his support for capital punishment in 1994. "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death," he wrote...
...initial expectation had been that Ashby would be found guilty of ?flat-hatting,? or reckless flying, in what seemed to be an open-and-shut case. But the defense convincingly argued that the ski lift was not on Ashby?s official map, that the jet?s altitude gauge malfunctioned and that Ashby believed speed and altitude restrictions in the area to be more lenient than they were. None of the defense arguments will make much of a difference to the local residents or to the large segment of Italy?s population that is left-leaning and opposed to an American...