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...plus-film that began with George Lucas' Star Tours), grownup kids are always looking for inventive story lines to harness to new techniques. As Woodbury says, I.O.A. is "a lot of evolution and a lot of revolution." Disney, with the Tower of Terror ride and its own 3-D smash It's Tough to Be a Bug, will surely be part of that revolution. But for now, I.O.A. is the glorious trendsetter in the huge theme resort that is Florida. The state of the park has reached state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrill Park | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...looking for pointers on how to commit a crime effectively--so-called mode copying. In Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, robbers started breaking car windows with bricks and snatching handbags--a bluntly effective technique that was quickly picked up by imitators and came to be known as the "smash and grab." But copycat criminals are often lured by the sheer thrill of making headlines. They see America in a furor over Pepsi tampering or high school shootings, and regard it as a quick way to achieve significance. It is a power trip for the powerless, those who feel they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminals As Copycats | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...known as the Miami Sound. Undeterred by industry executives who said, "Dump the timbales" or "It will never sell," the Cuban immigrant put together a local band called the Miami Sound Machine in the early '80s. The lead singer was his then girlfriend Gloria. The group's 1985 smash hit Conga transformed Gloria Estefan into the first Latin female crossover superstar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Godfather of the Miami Sound | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...most stringent in the country, by selling sexually explict videos to a 14-year-old at their local Hustler Magazine and Gifts store. Flynt who?s been busy baiting Cincinnati?s smut-shunning political establishment for years, wants to do nothing less in the current case than "to smash the current legal definition of obscenity, which allows the offensiveness of materials to be judged by local community standards," says TIME writer-reporter Joel Stein, who has followed the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Again, It's the People vs. Larry Flynt | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

ARMORED ATTACK TANKS (AATs) These lumbering Trade Federation land ships are not exactly speeder bikes, but their heavily armored noses are strong enough to smash through walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Galactic Guide | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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