Word: snazzier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vampires are a Paris gang preying on the rich and eluding their nemesis, a crusading reporter. He is the nominal hero, but the villains are the stars: smarter, snazzier. They scamper over the roofs of Paris in their Spider-Man skivvies; they perform the great stunts; they are the master spies, the mad bombers, the killer caterers. And in Irma Vep (played by Musidora, fetchingly saturnine in pancake makeup and black tights), Les Vampires gave us film's first modern woman. No wonder the Paris police banned an episode for depicting "exalted evil...
...Japanese city dwellers, used to even snazzier Vuitton and Panasonic pleasures, Nagano has the charm of a big city's drawling country cousin, an apple-cheeked, wood-burning relative still known to eat raw horsemeat and pond snails and crickets. In a chestnut-filled village just 30 min. from central Nagano, a ruddy-faced high school boy gets off his bike to walk a visitor to his destination. An old woman at a country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket...
...watch two computers match wits in a chess championship, and shop in the dairy section for frozen human eggs. But in culture we will still look to the past, as we do today, for clues to a better, truer, snazzier time. Everything old is always new again...
...News has hit troubles on several fronts. After eight years of ratings dominance, Peter Jennings' evening newscast, World News Tonight, has been overtaken in recent weeks by the snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat NBC, more recently retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats...
...still like Mike...sometimes. This year, he has given us bigger glasses, a snazzier Greenhouse Cafe and the occassional appearance of star chefs to cook omelets and tortellini...