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...syndicated shows. Six Star Trek movies have been made, grossing an aggregate of $500 million. There is a TV cartoon show, a theater-style attraction at the Universal Studios theme park and a legion of annual conventions of "Trekkers." A retrospective exhibit of Star Trekiana was held at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum earlier this year, and a chain of "virtual reality" Star Trek entertainment centers will open across the country next year...
...There was a great deal of information that was not in the history books about Beals' work that I felt should be presented," said Litwack, whose own work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...TYLER JOHNSON'S MOTHER wakes up one morning to find the word divorce printed on her forehead in black felt pen, the reader can't help tingling with anticipation that more fun awaits. And for a while Douglas Coupland delivers, drawing delectable characters such as narrator Tyler with his Smithsonian- class collection of shampoos; his sister Daisy, a neohippie in blond dreadlocks; and his mother Jasmine, a twice-divorced hippie with the felt- penned forehead...
...Refers to Hillary--Twice Humor Attempts . Talks about cocaine--rubs nose . Makes joke about stock market reaction to possible Clinton win--swooping hand motion emphasizes point . "I have no experience running up a $4 trillion debt." . "I'm all ears." . The lobbyists, under Perot, "Will all be in the Smithsonian." DOES NOT APPLY A Few of our Favorite Quotes . "Saddam Hussein, the dictator." . "Get those deadbeat fathers to pay up..." . "One of them Act-Up Groups..." . "...that human rights crowd" . "...that nuclear freeze crowd" . "China is a huge country broken into many provinces." . At a very early age [children] learn...
...come back at last (it may be barely visible to the naked eye in November). Why so late? A comet's orbit is determined only by careful plotting of its position when it's visible; evidently the 1862 measurements were off. To his credit, Brian Marsden, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, had argued in a 1973 paper that Swift-Tuttle might be late. Few astronomers paid attention -- but Marsden's prediction was only 17 days...