Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tuition's worth of tokens, they returned, exhilarated and carrying their winnings: a fluorescent orange rope-bracelet and a holographic pencil. All in all, a successful night's work. I had to speculate what kind of freaks accrued enough skee-ball points to afford the 600-token South Park wind-up toys, much less the 400,000-token CD player...
...WILL WIN: Steven Spielberg. The Academy loves to reward Spielberg for taking on serious themes. And why not? The fact that he does films like Jurassic Park 2 simply highlights the highflown goals of a movie like this. Saving Private Ryan is every bit the directorial triumph. However, keep an eye out for a dark horse-scads of film critics' organizations have been giving Best Picture to Spielberg while reserving directorial honors for quirky, Harvard-educated Malick...
...more than 18,500, Ashland has a dazzling combination of physical and cultural activities. "I'm like a kid in a candy store," says Larry Kellogg, 66, who relocated there with his wife Judy in 1995. He keeps busy golfing, woodworking and taking long walks in 100-acre Lithia Park, which extends along a creek several miles out from the center of the town. The mountains on two sides of the city and the Cascade Range, 20 miles to the east, are excellent for biking, hiking and skiing--both downhill and cross-country--and several golf courses are within...
...strange that rock 'n' roll in all its flamboyance so rarely finds common ground with theater. The rock musical Hedwig is an exception. A bona fide off-Broadway smash and soon-to-be-movie, Hedwig also makes a captivating rock-'n'-roll album. The tale of a transsexual trailer-park denizen, Hedwig echoes the gender-blending audacity of late 1970s David Bowie and the hormone-stoked feverishness of early Meat Loaf. But John Cameron Mitchell's vocals and Stephen Trask's music have their own raw poetry. The spirit of Hedwig shines through: cheeky, resilient, wounded but triumphant...
...best times to experience the majesty of the Smoky Mountains are spring and fall. But summer is good too. And come to think of it, winter isn't all bad. A great little town for all these seasons is Newport, Tenn., snuggled up against the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and attracting retirees and vacationers for the same reason: there is much to see here and even more...