Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawn, an environmental engineer who works in Prince William Sound: "When I flew over the site in the Shetlands, I was astounded to see that the oil was not sticking to the beaches. It would roll up on the beach and then roll back down, leaving only a slight sheen. This oil acts very differently from ((Alaska's)) Prudhoe Bay crude...
...Chicago video store last year, a teenager saw a cassette for The Rookie and said, "Look! The new Charlie Sheen movie!" That Sheen was billed below Clint Eastwood, who also directed the film, mattered not to this youth. Clint, long past his popular prime, was as old and irrelevant as Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Methuselah. To many moviegoers, Eastwood, 62, has become the character he played in Sergio Leone's westerns 25 (and a million) years ago: the "Man with No Name...
...THEIR POLYVINYL sheen and electronic gadgetry and spiffy biomorphic shapes, world's fairs are 19th century spectacles. They are celebrations of human (or, anyhow, bourgeois capitalist) confidence, of mechanical ingenuity, of rationality, of progress. The first was staged in London's Crystal Palace in 1851, just as the 19th century was really becoming the 19th century. At the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, Edison exhibited his phonograph, Bell his telephone and Underwood his typewriter...
Other recent limited runs featured Martin Sheen in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Rob Lowe and Tony Randall in a Feydeau farce (both shows from Randall's new National Actors Theater), Jane Alexander in The Visit and, most opulently, Joan Collins, whose Private Lives ended last week. Says Harvey Sabinson, executive director of the League of American Theaters and Producers: "None of us who have been around a long time can recall a moment when so many major Hollywood stars came to Broadway...
...CRUCIBLE. Tony Randall launches his National Actors Theater on Broadway with an all-star revival of Arthur Miller's gem about the Salem witch trials, featuring Martin Sheen, Fritz Weaver and Michael York...