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...force of the bomb sheared off the outer wall of Building 131 and left a smoking crater 85 ft. across and 35 ft. deep where the truck had been parked. The shock wave blew in windows and pulverized reinforced concrete, creating a blizzard of slashing, crushing projectiles. Windows in several other buildings, some half a mile away, were also shattered. In the midst of the carnage, Guerrero came upon a dazed and wounded man and helped him down seven flights of stairs to an emergency van that had pulled up outside. While many of the hundred or more officers...
Brisk and churning, ID4 offers no grand vision, other than the fact that, in this post-cold war era, it looks to outer space to find new enemies worth hating, fighting and blasting into little squishy pieces. "The U.S. is desperately in search of an enemy," says Paul Verhoeven, who has directed some stunning sci-fi (RoboCop, Total Recall) and the equally otherworldly Showgirls. "The communists were the enemy, and the Nazis before them, but now that wonderful enemy everyone can fight has been lost. Alien sci-fi films give us a terrifying enemy that's politically correct. They...
...airwaves and cable wires already pulse with a dozen TV series on the otherworldly, from the light-headed NBC hit 3rd Rock from the Sun to the time-travel capering of Sliders on Fox, from Showtime's The Outer Limits and Poltergeist: The Legacy to the fact-based (or factoidal) Unsolved Mysteries and Sightings. Two of the series, The Sentinel on UPN and Fox's new Millennium, from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, are psychic cop shows. The media sky is darker with eerie phenomena than a UFOlogist's nightscape. As a serial killer whispers in the first episode...
...game. In a classic case of counterprogramming, the two mininetworks will between them air 11 ethnic-themed shows in the fall--nearly twice the big-network total. Some of them star familiar names like Sherman Hemsley, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robin Givens. One, UPN's Homeboys in Outer Space, is a must-see for the high-concept title alone. Some are refugees from the Big Four: Moesha, an urban sitcom starring teen singer Brandy Norwood, was developed for CBS, but after the network passed, UPN put it on the air in January and saw it blossom into a moderate...
This week the outrageous Mr. Stupak unveils his outsize, outlandish, outer-space vision in an orgasmic burst of fireworks and flackery. The fourth tallest building in the U.S. (fifth, if you count the World Trade Center twice), the Stratosphere opens with 1,500 rooms and 97,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and a promenade with a handsomely designed World's Fair theme. By year's end Stupak hopes to have completed an additional 1,000 rooms, a retail mall, a giant pool and a King Kong-size gorilla ride--a 70-ft.-high mechanical ape that will climb...