Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even these exemplary cases suffer from the cloying taint of kitsch. Close Encounters reaches an anticlimax with its hackneyed vision of dainty space guys trooping out of the mother ship. Contact cannot explain its scientist-heroine's obsession without mawkish flashbacks to her childhood as an orphan; and when she finally meets the Vegans, they take the shape of long-lost Dad--to make it "easier" for her. Apparently our kind can handle only so much strangeness at a time: we travel for light-years, down through the raging chaos of cosmic wormholes, only to arrive...
...Americans who waited in vain last week for strike-bound UPS trucks to transport everything from lobsters to Lands' End T shirts. "I'm mad at the Teamsters Union," says Paula Lambert, founder of the Mozzarella Co. in Dallas, Texas, who has had to scramble for ways to ship her perishable specialty cheeses to restaurants and gourmet shops around the country. Declares Darlene Garalde, owner of Bridals by Heaven Scent in Honolulu: "It's not going to be heaven-sent if we don't get our gowns soon. It's going to be a wedding from hell...
...Angkor Wat in a box and ship it to Washington, but the organizers of the National Gallery's show have done the next best thing. With the cooperation of the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh and the Musee Guimet, under the general curatorial direction of the art historians Helen Jessup and Thierry Zephir, they have assembled the first full-scale traveling exhibition of classic Cambodian sculpture in more than 50 years. (A smaller show, a dress rehearsal for this one, was seen in Australia...
CHRISTIAN MORTENSEN, 114 PROOF: Danish birth registration. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Sailed to Ellis Island in 1903 on a ship named the United States. VICE: A nice fat cigar. ODDS: Clearly the Establishment pick, but in this crowd he may be just a young...
MOSCOW: Mir is adrift once more after a failure of the space station's main computer. The systems shut-down occurred while a cargo ship was docking. Now the troubled space station's solar panels are no longer pointed at the sun, leaving its rickety body wobbling and unoriented and its crew in the dark...