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Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the band INXS is the movie's big draw. I shudder to think what the millions of love-sick teenagers who think Hutchence is a puppy-dog version of Mick Jagger are going to think when confronted with the constant onslaught of idiotic, random dialogue, offensive jokes and drug abuse and vomiting of Dogs In Space...
...blue Atlantic vista when her reverie was rudely shattered. Suddenly what had at first seemed to be just a speck in the sky became another airliner that was streaking right toward her Continental Airlines 747. "I knew it was going to hit us," the Jacksonville homemaker recalled with a shudder...
...quest for good food in China, the most useful quality may be a spirit of adventure. Nowhere is an unprejudiced palate better rewarded. Many foods considered delicacies by the Chinese cause Westerners to shudder. Among such exotica are snake, sea slug, turtle, bird's nests formed of swallows' saliva, dried jellyfish and webs of duck feet. The faint-palated would bypass such choices and thereby miss some of the world's most carefully orchestrated seasonings as well as much of the drama of Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken...
...years ago he represented a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring, in a suit against Penthouse, which ran a tale about the sexual feats of a fictional Miss Wyoming. Though an appeals court threw out the lower-court award of $12.5 million, the case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision on the novel Touching. A California psychologist who ran nude therapy groups convinced a jury that he was the basis for an unflattering portrait in the book and won $75,000 in damages from Author Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, which turned around...
...explosion at the Soviet nuclear plant in Chernobyl last April sent a shudder through the Hanford authorities. The Washington facility is the only U.S. Government-owned nuclear plant that uses graphite, as Chernobyl did, to control the atomic reaction. Also, Hanford is one of the few U.S. nuclear plants that, like Chernobyl, do not have a protective dome to prevent the release of accidental radiation. The Department of Energy appointed a commission to re-evaluate Hanford's safety, and the panel declared last month that an accident like the Chernobyl explosion was impossible. It added, however, that the reactor should...