Word: treks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perhaps not the most centrally located spot, Mather is nevertheless an optimum location. Otherwise the wing of campus including Dunster, Leverett Towers, and Mather is the exposed right flank. The row of houses stretching from Kirkland to Old Leverett is always bright and never quite as abandoned my lone trek. East of DeWolfe Street there is another level of desertion that a police substation would dispel...
...child hopes will be under the Christmas tree. The director is Brian Levant, who moved plenty of Flintstones merchandise with his last film hit; the star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a preposterous and popular action figure. For the science nerd in all of us, there's Star Trek: First Contact, eighth in the series, second with Patrick Stewart helming the Enterprise. And if Grandma drops by for Christmas dinner and refuses to leave, take her to Mother, the delightful Albert Brooks comedy about a guy who moves back in with his nudgy mom (Debbie Reynolds...
...Christmas Carol is the season's most produced show. In Los Angeles and La Jolla, California, Star Trek veteran Patrick Stewart will be giving his acclaimed one-man rendition. A megaversion can be found--where else?--in New York City's Madison Square Garden, where Tony Randall plays Scrooge and Ben Vereen the Ghost of Christmas Present. San Francisco's venerable A.C.T. troupe is reviving its renowned 1976 production, absent since 1993. Says director of marketing Robert Sweibel: "It's the closest thing we have to a surefire hit, and it helps us underwrite more adventurous programming." Theater managers across...
MOVIES . . . SPACE JAM: It's finally here, the long-hyped Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny collaboration. In plot, 'Space Jam' is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy?s most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsey Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn?t renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts. There are the requisite inside...
...political novice, Etheridge nevertheless has an uphill trek to Capitol Hill against a well-connected incumbent in a district of Jessecrats. Etheridge's focus is on the environment, education and children. He worries especially about worker safety, wages and rights...