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...swimming: Good. Their stunner against fifth-ranked Florida gives them momentum for the second half of the season...
...heat waves and hurricanes, skin cancer and typhoid. Like 1983's The Day After, which powerfully fantasized a nuclear attack, the mini-series THE FIRE NEXT TIME (CBS, April 18, 20) means to be a cautionary tale about the devastating effects of global warming. Part 1 is a stunner, combining epic special effects with sharp detail to tell the poignant story of an everyfamily struggling to adapt to a disastrous world. Part 2, alas, goes astray, slighting environmental and social issues for mundane family melodrama...
Larry Kramer earned an Oscar nomination for his 1969 screenplay Women in Love, then co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the radical Act Up. Onstage, he retold his life in The Normal Heart (1985) and resumed it in this off-Broadway stunner. Jonathan Hadary gave the performance of the year, balancing titanic rage, puckish mockery and suppressed self-pity...
...hellacious, is where Whoopi Goldberg goes one up on the world. Twist it, she's a funny little troll. Smile like the Queen of Sheba, she is the Queen of Sheba, a knee-weakening beauty (don't doubt it; like Meryl Streep, who's also less than a stunner, Whoopi can play beauty). Shove out her jaw, she's a bad-mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want to give...
...supposed to be Clinton's week, and in most respects it was -- but for the stunner that would reduce his acceptance speech to a secondary headline in Friday's papers. Ross Perot's sudden withdrawal from the race he had never officially entered left many supporters across the country feeling betrayed. Their grand, impractical crusade seemed to fall victim to the most grimy practical considerations: Perot's inability to rev up his stalled candidacy. Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins, his odd-couple team of political handlers, were frustrated by the candidate's unwillingness to be handled. First Jordan was said...