Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RUNNING ON EMPTY. The gifted son of two '60s radicals must choose between his family and himself, without betraying either. Sidney Lumet's film bathes in political cliches and then comes clean. River Phoenix is a sensitive sensation.
But it was Griffith Joyner's performance in the 100 meters that caused the real sensation at the trials. In the blistering sun (the track heated up to 115 degrees), Griffith Joyner atomized Evelyn Ashford's 1984 world record. Track aficionados found it hard to believe that this relative novice...
Trains are still the best conveyance for transporting a mood. Last week's destination was either the past or the future -- Chicago anyway, Wrigley Field. After two or three switchyards, a traveler gets turned around, and the sensation is of highballing one way and the other, backward and forward, in...
4. Isadora. This new sensation has opened opposite the Superdome just in time for the convention. Isadora, as in Duncan, is art deco inspired, with etched glass, white papier-mache palm trees and piped-in swing music for dancing. Service is a bit rough around the edges, but the inventive...
No earthbound machine can fully duplicate the dives or turns of a plane in flight. But it turns out that a person does not need to be flying through space to feel as if he were. The human body responds not so much to motion as to acceleration, what the...