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...with chaotic, simultaneous mumblings by the cast followed by a booming declaration of someone claiming to be God. Once the lights go up, the rest of the play is pure sugary sweetness. A group of overalls- and pigtail-clad performers engages in a bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping, yet insipid songs with cheddary titles...
...great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall are in that mold: princes of darkness, Borgias of Brooklyn. The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades...
...WATT of Everything but the Girl, the winningly unprepossessing British duo whose single Missing is nudging Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in the singles charts, success is fun but not essential. "It's thrilling to have a pop hit," says Watt. "But I'd got used to our life as an underground band." Not surprising, since he and TRACEY THORN have been recording since 1982. In 1992, when Watt nearly died of Churg-Strauss syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can affect the lungs and intestines, they reassessed everything. One result: Missing. Now the album's moving too, but Watt...
...solar system, for the mysterious Planet X (now considered very unlikely to exist), and then, as powerful instruments like the 200-in. Hale telescope came online, around other stars as well. But picking out a planet against the glare of a star is like trying to spot a 100-watt light bulb next to a 100-billion-watt searchlight. Astronomers find it much easier to look for the subtle influence a planet might have on its parent star...
...James Watt, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for having attempted to mislead the federal grand jury probing an influence-peddling scandal in Reagan's Housing Department. Watt had originally faced a 25-count felony indictment for his role as a housing consultant. Some observers cited the outcome as evidence that the original charges may have been unduly inflated...