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Wayne Campbell, star of Wayne's World, is a mush-minded dweeb whose success prefigures the collapse of civilization . . . Not! (There, we've done our mandatory aping of Wayneglish, that newly epidemic subspecies of English that certifies Wayne as this month's pop-cultural phenom.) Actually, he is a fairly learned dude; his I.Q. could match those of Bill and Ted and still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party On, Wayne -- From TV to Movies | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Women's team phenom DeLone charged through her draw before she was dispatched in the finals by long-time friend and national number-one Lisa Raymond...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Shines at Nationals | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Junior running back Erick Hamilton--who, in the past few weeks, has taken a back seat to sophomore phenom Keith Elias--showed the tenacity on Saturday that made him a star last year. The running back from Dover, Delaware, picked up 100 yards on 15 carries and scored one touchdown...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Life Isn't All That Bad, Tosches | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

Uustal took a throw-in from midfield, and faked out three defenders on her way to the goal. At close range, she arced a shot past Friar goaltending phenom Jen Mead for the deciding tally with 30:44 gone in the first half...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Booters Upset 20th-Ranked Providence, 1-0 | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

DEAD AGAIN. Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean phenom of the London stage, hatched an improbable hit from this no-star film noir. Branagh has fun ransacking Hitchcock's skeleton closet, and his wife Emma Thompson is ravishing as the doomed heroine, but there's not much here to prop up a preposterous plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 30, 1991 | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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