Word: steven
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...Steven Wright, 31, is one of the few young comics to depart from the Carlin-Klein-Leno style of observational humor. His offbeat, cerebral routines are a string of absurdist one-liners, delivered in a deadpan monotone. Examples: "I was once arrested for walking in someone else's sleep." "When I die, I'm going to leave my body to science fiction." "I was walking through a forest and a tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear it." Like many comedians with a shtick, Wright (who grew up near Leno in Massachusetts and also...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Patricia Delaney, Michael Duffy, Hays Gorey, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Marcia Gauger...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Patricia Delaney, Michael Duffy, Hays Gorey, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Marcia Gauger...
Will Innerspace, the new comedy-fantasy directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and "presented" by Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones), join the parade of winners? Or even surpass them? It ought to. It's the summer's best "summer movie." This is a film with something -- indeed, too funny much -- for everybody. A sci-fi thriller in which one brave man is miniaturized to the size of a mote and takes a fantastic voyage into another man's buttock. A buddy picture in which both buddies occupy the same body. A classic romance of two men in love with the same girl...
...helpful in the prevention of bedsores, a problem that afflicts up to 30% of patients in chronic-care facilities; some hospitals also endorse the use of flotation mattresses to help premature infants breathe more normally. Opinion is mixed, however, on whether water beds are good for back pain. Orthopedist Steven Garfin of the University of California at San Diego gives cautious approval. "Patients tend to do a little better in terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene Caillet, a rehabilitation specialist at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center...