Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York tabloids from jumping all over the story. Jackson needs all the wifely support he can get at the moment. On top of trying to rescue a tanking album, he's suing the Mirror for reporting in 1992 that his features had be come "hideously distorted" by plastic surgery...
CASALI AND KLIPFEL, LABELED AS snitches, fast became outcasts. Klipfel found a black plastic rat in her office. Pictures of her children were knocked off her desk repeatedly. In a lawsuit they filed in Chicago federal court, Klipfel and Casali allege that ATF conducted a "deliberate and strenuous" campaign of retribution meant to suppress further disclosures of misconduct. Says Sanders: "Retaliation is so obvious...
...Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...
...FLORIDA'S WALT DISNEY WORLD, the hot new "ride" is George Lucas' Alien Encounter. In this fond tribute to William Castle, sleaze showman extraordinaire of 13 Ghosts and The Tingler, visitors enter a circular room, are strapped into seats and see a huge hideous monster writhing in a plastic tube. Then the alien escapes--and the lights go out. Heavy footsteps approach, and your seat gets a violent rattle. You feel the creature's breath and reptilian tongue on the back of your neck. An icky liquid drenches you; is it someone's exploding guts or your own fear-sweat...
Omri, played by Hal Scardino, is a young boy who brings his plastic action-figures to life by placing them inside a magic cupboard in his bedroom. He locks the door with a magic key, and when he opens the doors again, the figures come alive...