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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scares me," said Jack Hills, an astronomer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It really does." He and the rest of the world had good reason to be worried. Astronomer Brian Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had just announced that a newly discovered asteroid a mile wide was headed for Earth and might pass as close as 30,000 miles in the year 2028. "The chance of an actual collision is small," Marsden reported, "but not entirely out of the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroids: Whew! | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...center stage to his students on several occasions, reinforcing the impression that his relationship with the children who pass through his classroom reaches beyond the year they spend with him. Kohl states with great pride that several of his classes referred to him as Uncle Herbie, and with good reason: the avuncular consideration given to each child fosters a sense of humanity and belonging. Kohl's sensitivities to the needs of children is touching, as is his vehement contention that love is an absolute necessity for a culture of responsible, altruistic adults...

Author: By Joshua D. Barnes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Educator's Memoir Illuminates the Teaching Life | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...with the approval of the twins' mother, Queen Anne (Anne Parillaud), then proceed to kidnap Phillipe from his dungeon and train him in courtly manners in preparation for his replacing the king during a masked ball. To proceed further in the plot would be to destroy the only compelling reason for seeing the movie, unless you enjoy spending $5-8 per ticket to see seventeenth-century dress as rendered by Hollywood...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mask' Offers Cliched Tale of Vacationing Cast | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...this overwhelming visual imagery cloud the musical promise of the songs Unwound chose to play from their Kill Rock Stars arsenal. At first, the music suffered from its surface awkwardness and appeared to have no direction, no substance, no reason. But Unwound wouldn't let you leave the room without closing up the gaps in the musical context. A dissonant run-on melody may have dragged out interminably and lost your attention or the grinding repetitiveness of a discordant thrash tune could have sent your mind a flitter, but Unwound always successfully brought the listener back into their sonically disturbing...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sonic Smorgasbord for the Self-Absorbed | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...alwayswith someone else's clothing, and that someone isalways of the opposite sex. This focus on theroaring sex drives of the usually staid Britishgives the audience a voyeuristic thrill inwatching the play. In addition, the number ofphallic jokes that abound in this play are enoughalone to give Freud reason for existence. Withfrenzied movements of calculated theatrical flair,the cast manages to eke out a even a few moreexaggerated and oversexualized actions than themultitude that the script itself provides. Inparticular, Burke, as Seargant Match, does ahilariously comical performance while describinghis efforts to recover that body part of WinstonChurchill which had been...

Author: By Elaine Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilde Would Have Loved Orton's Freudian `Butler' | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

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