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Harvard students with families in Los Angeles bemoaned collapsed chimneys, overturned china cabinets and shattered picture frames as consequences of the 6.6 Richter scale earthquake that struck Los Angeles Monday...
...slope to the deep end. The entire theatre, including the stage, is elevated about four feet above the pool floor by a system of wooden beams (I peeked under a trap door); this hollow, thin stage helped four slim girls with tap shoes register a 6.0 on the Richter scale in the first scene. The remnants of the pool are beautiful: an old sloped roof gives the feeling of a small playhouse, while brass guard-rails, a grey marble deck, ornate stone ledges and an enormous marble sculpture of Neptune's head at center stage remind us of why Adams...
...Brien settled into the job, however, his neophyte weaknesses began to show. He leans into his guests (Tony Randall, Mary Matalin and Ed McMahon among others last week) like a high school kid on a job interview. His sidekick, Andy Richter, is a superfluous appendage. The prepared comedy bits have occasionally been funny (a takeoff on Letterman's Small-Town News in which the "real" items were faked) but more often tacky (bogus interviews with celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, with moving mouths superimposed on photos of them). O'Brien has decorated his rec-room set with pictures of TV personalities...
Japan's most devastating earthquake in 45 years, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, destroyed villages and set fires across a small island near Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. At least 166 people were killed -- most by the 10-ft.-to-30-ft. tidal waves, or tsunamis, that swept victims into the ocean and tossed boats onto the shore...
Free Willy has other attractions. Richter is an appealing, unaffected young performer; and Willy, with his black-and-white shading and fine Deco design, is a handsome brute. He's smart enough to understand complex English sentences, nodding an appropriate yes or no to Jesse's questions. And like any ingratiating adolescent, Willy knows how to make bad manners look cute. The children who giggled in Jurassic Park at the sight of a paleobotanist elbow- deep in triceratops doody will love the moment when Willy uses his blowhole to whisk away a huge wad of whale snot. Most important...