Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood has fallen in love with. Consider the string of Crichton novels that have tapped into popular obsessions and been converted into box-office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic threat, earned $65 million domestically for Hollywood in 1993. Disclosure, his 1994 topical twist on sex-harassment in the office (Demi Moore chases Michael Douglas around the desk) collected $83 million domestically. Congo, his adventure saga featuring a talking gorilla...
...when a drug's unapproved uses overshadow its original purpose. Retin-A cream, for example, was approved by the FDA for the treatment of acne in 1971, but then, much to the FDA's consternation, it was widely prescribed to smooth wrinkles caused by aging and overexposure to the sun...
...jumped to the ground, looked around and felt as if I had been propelled backward in time. Shimmering in the heat of the sun was an earth-and-wood fortress ringed by pillboxes. But for the greenness, A Shau had a French Foreign Legion quality, Beau Geste without the sand. I stood there asking myself the question I am sure Roman legionnaires must have asked in Gaul-What the hell am I doing here...
...parody of one of William Blake's illustrations from The Song of Los. It comes out as a yearning apotheosis of the Jewish-American princess, in a semitranslucent nightie from some celestial boutique, languidly holding a bouquet and wafted aloft. Above her is the sun, looking like an expensive Christmas ornament. An insect-winged, bifurcated, slender-is flying toward it, helplessly attracted. It is Florine's eager soul, rising to the em pyrean. Bendel's she loved; and next to Bendel...
...Tues. 10 CENTRAL CONN. 7 p.m. Fri. 13 COLUMBIA 7 p.m. Sat. 14 CORNELL 4 p.m. Tues. 17 DARTMOUTH 7 p.m. Tues. 24 at Massachusetts 7 p.m. Fri. 27 BROWN 7 p.m. Sat. 28 YALE 4 p.m. November Thur. 2 RUTGERS 7 p.m. Sat. 4 HARVARD INVIT. TBA Sun. 5 Fri. 10 Ivy League Champs. TBA Sun. 12 (at Pennsylvania...