Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hurling, flatulence, jiggling breasts, the odd vibrator joke--all the elegant elements we've come to cherish in what is now, let's face it, the mainstream of American movie comedy--are present in BASEketball. So, of course, are the young TV masters of gross-out, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, being mentored through their major--all right, maybe we're stretching a point here--motion-picture debut by one of the genre's old masters, David Zucker, auteur of Airplane! and the Naked Gun epics...
...Magic, which sails out of a glistening Art Deco terminal in Port Canaveral on Florida's Atlantic Coast, is all about spending, not saving. It is one of four billion-dollar investments that the company has mapped out. (The others: Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, a new California park and a bigger Tokyo Disneyland.) Four years in the making and four months late in the sailing--due to shipyard glitches and the Disney perfectionism that drives subcontractors nuts--the Magic is a down payment on Disney's ambition to dominate every form of entertainment. Suave and bustling...
...rival's marriage. "There is sadness because we are great skaters together," says Evgeny. "But there is relief because I will have another life that I deserve. I'm expecting a new, happy life with no stress." Sounds like Pasha may have found her screenplay. --Reported by Alice Park...
...members believe they can exploit their natural resources with minimal risk while others don't want to take any chances. In Alaska spruce forests that served as traditional hunting grounds have been clear-cut by Tlingit loggers. Florida's Miccosukee Indians are attempting to build housing within Everglades National Park, while Utah's Goshute are actively seeking a nuclear-waste dump. And last year Arizona's White Mountain Apaches, protecting their logging and cattle interests, declared that federal agents would be forbidden to enforce the Endangered Species Act on tribal land. Says Rosita Worl, a Tlingit anthropologist: "There has never...
...year; the record is 383). He doesn't pitch a lot of shutouts. In other words, he doesn't starve batters--he just serves them table scraps, stuff they can't really smack. Lots of his pitches dribble into the infield. Almost none fly out of the park (only five this year and none in his five face-offs against McGwire). Jim Palmer, a Hall of Fame pitcher, calls Maddux "a master at late movement," a baseballese way of saying his pitches dance away at the end, eluding the bat when it's already flying forward. He connives to throw...