Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-running comic book and a short-lived 1979 TV series. Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents, including gag cameos by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Ghostbusters' Dan Aykroyd. The movie even has its own theme-park ride, a kind of human car wash. All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another invitation to kids to flirt with the idea of being dead...
This is the primal theme -- rying to bring the dead back to life- - that has preoccupied Casper's executive producer, Steven Spielberg, in E.T. and Poltergeist, Always and Jurassic Park. The new film is sprightly enough to conceal its subtext from censorious politicians. But children, who dwell in fear at least as much as in innocence, may get the message: that it would be cool, bitchin', totally awesome to join the Dead Kids Society...
...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Lina Lofaro, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Sidney Urquhart and Amy Yamner
Carswell sped through the 10-kilometer Franklin Park course in 30:42, becoming the first Crimson runner to qualify for the national meet since Paul Gompers...
...misery culminated in a 12-3 embarrassment at the hands of Boston College in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament on April 18 at Fenway Park...