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...collider, true to its name, was to be an oval underground tunnel 55 miles in circumference that would smash subatomic particles together at speeds approaching that of light...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Supercollider's Cancellation Changes Physicists' Lives | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Midler, who has re-ignited her career with a smash national tour this fall, may be a good choice for getting ratings but she was a risky one artistically. She has always been more of a personality than an actress, more engaging as herself than as someone else, save in her exquisite portrayal of a doomed Janis Joplinesque singer in The Rose. Midler's style is ironic, mocking, frequently distanced from the material she is playing. The Momma Rose of Gypsy is a desperate, driven woman, unfazed by law or morality in her single-minded pursuit of stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Comes Up Roses | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...that I am a famous writer, director and producer of a smash-hit rock opera, now that I am practically blind from the flashbulbs of the paparazzi, now that I cannot leave my room except when disguised as a tree or a piece of cheese, I find that my adoring public has many questions for me. Like, "What went on behind the scenes of Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera'? Was there laughter? Tears? Hopes? Fears? Smiles? Sighs? Blackened? Eyes?" Rest assured, my friends, that there was all that and more. For example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director's Notes on Jurassic Park | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...most feminists, men and women are equal because deep down men and women are the same. Not sort of the same, not basically the same, but the same. Scrape away the social conditioning, smash through the corporate glass ceiling, get rid of all the historical biases, and what you have are two creatures who are equally capable of doing whatever the other can do. For these feminists, sexual equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically...

Author: By Kelly M. Bowdren, | Title: With Friends Like These ... | 12/8/1993 | See Source »

Whatever their ethics or methods, the tabloid shows are clearly having a major impact. Parochial crime stories, once confined to the local paper's front page and the 11 o'clock news, now become national obsessions. There's still a major difference between the smash-and-grab tactics of the tabloids and the relatively sober treatment these stories usually get on the networks. But it's no longer possible to deny that the two genres increasingly mirror each other across their divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easing the Sleaze | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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