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Commercial breaks offered no relief. Nearly every advertisement was for a 1-900 number featuring a Jenny, Susie or Lisa batting their eyelashes at the viewer. One promised titillating conversations with "Housewives, Secretaries and Co-Eds!" to thrill-seeking phonecallers. There were a couple of ads for the International Hair Club for Men. But I'm sure that men with full heads of hair enjoy sleazy movies and 1-900 numbers...
Beginning college anew would be a hassle. I thought about leaving, but the prospect of filling out more applications and writing a bunch of dippy essays didn't thrill me. What's more, I felt like I would be abandoning my friends...
...only played in one game this year, but at least it was an important one: the Beanpot final against Boston University. "It was a huge thrill for me to play that game," Connolly says. "I was very nervous going in, because I knew that it would be packed. Once the game started, I just concentrated on the game, and I calmed down...
...being hailed as a milestone for prime-time TV, but the plot twist smacks of gimmickery. The trouble is that the show tries to have it both ways: Murphy, the unsentimental career woman, has spent most of the season making cynical jokes about motherhood ("Oh, right, the unforgettable thrill of passing a bowling ball"). Yet when the baby finally arrives, there's our new mother, misty-eyed, crooning (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman to the newborn. For a gal who knows the words to In-A-Gadda- Da-Vida, she's starting to sound an awful...
Disneyland opened in 1955, at the dawn of the last great Age of World's Fairs, and Disney World opened in 1971, at its close. Neither date is a coincidence: the existence of Disney theme parks on three continents has diminished, if not spoiled, the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of international expositions. Florida's Disney World in particular is a world's fair manque, complete with Utopian subtext, we're-in-business-to-help-people corporate pavilions and a giant sphere; and now, alas, Expo '92 may be experienced as something of an imitation. "It's sort of like...